Advancing The Science of Networks in Communities
Sophia Sullivan successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled The Role of Leadership in Facilitating Innovation in Multiteam Systems on Friday, June 6, 2014. We are very proud of her work and wish her a bright future. Congratulations, Dr. Sullivan!
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.
The paper “Sequential Structural Signatures of Success in Teams and Multiteam Systems” was presented at the ICA annual conference in Seattle, WA. The paper was written by Aaron Schecter and Noshir Contractor of the SONIC lab along with collaborators Roger Leenders and Leslie DeChurch.
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