SONIC is proud to welcome visitors Roger Leenders, Alex Stivala, and Lidwien van de Wijngaert.

Roger Leenders is Professor of Intra-Organizational Networks at Tilburg University. His research mainly focuses on the antecedents and consequences of networks in and of teams. A core research theme is the creativity of teams: what are the network drivers (and inhibitors) of the creative performance of teams? He will be working with us for two months, and arrived two weeks ago.

Alex Stivala is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne School of  Psychological Sciences. His research ranges from detecting protein substructures to building models for the analysis of cultural dissemination.  He will be working with the SONIC research group for two weeks.

Lidwien van de Wijngaert is a Senior Researcher at the Center for e-Government Studies at  the University of Twente, Netherlands. With the Center for e-Government Studies Lidwien develops strategies and offers advice for governmental entities from the national to local level. She will be providing her expertise this week.

Starting in August, Lindsay will be joining the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination (CCHE) at the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Under the leadership of Dr. John Schneider (MD, MPH) CCHE is dedicated to eliminating HIV transmission by utilizing social, sexual and other risk networks to identify 1) pathways of HIV transmission; 2) how behavior and influence are transmitted through these same networks; and 3) how these networks can be leveraged for integrated prevention interventions.   Lindsay will be engaging in research activities that include analysis of data from men having sex with men (MSM) networks and other network interventions in South Chicago and South India.