Jen Lueck

Deputy Director of Research

Jen Lueck is the Deputy Director of Research at the Center for Open Science (COS). In this role, she provides research portfolio leadership across COS’s work on openness, rigor, transparency, and reproducibility in research. She helps align research priorities, evidence synthesis, and cross-project coordination so that findings from COS research and evaluation projects can inform research strategy, partner engagement, and decision-making.

Prior to joining COS, Lueck was a tenured professor of health communication. Her academic research examined media effects, health behavior, persuasion, and strategic communication, drawing on theories and methods from communication, psychology, and behavioral science. Her work focused on how media and message exposure shape health-related attitudes, beliefs, risk perceptions, and behavior. She has led and published empirical research using experimental, survey, and mixed-methods approaches in health, science, and media contexts.

Lueck received her PhD and MA in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota and the University of Southern Mississippi, respectively, and her BA in Communication Science from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany.