Lindsay Young successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “Third Sector Organizational Field-building in a Digital World: Hyperlinks as Mechanisms of Institutionalized Collaboration” on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. She will be starting as a post-doctoral scholar at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination within the University of Chicago Medicine on August 18, 2014. Best of luck!

Li Yu is a visiting scholar from the School of Information, Renmin University of China. He is visiting SONIC to improve his research ability and enlarge his knowledge in social and knowledge networks through visiting and exchanging.  He is joining us from July 31, 2014 to July 30th, 2015. SONIC is looking forward to a productive year with Li.

SONIC currently hosts the two visitors Fabian Flöck and Dominic DiFranzo.

Fabian is a researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and is analyzing the editing dynamics of Wikipedia articles based on authorship and inter-editor relations. He will stay with the SONIC research group until August 14th.

Dominic is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He is working with our Virtual Worlds Environment group and assisting in developing a web observatory for Northwestern University. He will stay with SONIC until July 17th

For more information and the book of Abstracts visit: http://www.chasm.ws/program.html

For more information and the book of Abstracts visit: http://www.chasm.ws/program.html

Alina Lungeanu successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “Understanding the Assembly and Performance of Interdisciplinary Scientific Teams during the Emergence of a Nascent Scientific Field” on Thursday, June 5, 2014.

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.