SciTS 2010 Conference: Sessions

Benjamin F. Jones

Benjamin F. Jones, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. An economist by training, his research focuses largely on the relationship between idea production and human capital, with recent work investigating the role of teamwork in innovation and the relationship between age and creativity. He also studies obstacles to growth in poor countries. His research has appeared in journals such as Science and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has been profiled in media outlets such as CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist. Ben Jones earlier served as a special assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton Administration.

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Brian Uzzi

Brian Uzzi, Ph.D. is the Richard L. Thomas Chair in Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management. He is also professor of sociology, and professor of industrial engineering and management science at Northwestern University, where is also the Co-Director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems.

His award winning and highly cited research uses social network analysis and complexity theory to model creativity and innovation, contagion, and outstanding human achievement.

His research on team science focuses on the rise of teams in the productions of high impact science, the relationship between scientists networks and their creativity, and the role of on-line communities in creating and sustaining scientific collaboration.

Katy Börner

Katy Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science, Adjunct Professor at the School of Informatics and Computing and the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Core Faculty of Cognitive Science, Research Affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute, Fellow of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology, Member of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory, and Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (http://cns.slis.indiana.edu) at Indiana University. She is a curator of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit (http://scimaps.org). Her research focuses on the development of data analysis and visualization techniques for information access, understanding, and management. She is particularly interested in the study of the structure and evolution of scientific disciplines; the analysis and visualization of online activity; and the development of cyberinfrastructures for large scale scientific collaboration and computation. She is the co-editor of the Springer book on ‘Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries’ and of a special issue of PNAS on ‘Mapping Knowledge Domains’ (2004). Her new book ‘Atlas of Science: Guiding the Navigation and Management of Scholarly Knowledge’ published by MIT Press will become available in 2010. She holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Leipzig, 1991 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern, 1997.

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Luis Amaral

Luis Amaral, Ph.D. received his BS (1990) and MS (1992) in Physics from the University of Lisbon. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at Boston University under the guidance of Gene Stanley. From 1995-1996, Amaral was a postdoctoral fellow at Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany. He successively spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1999, Amaral became a Visiting Scholar at both the Center for Polymer Studies and at the Margret and H.A. Rey Laboratory for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine, and from 2000 to 2002 he held joint Research Associate appointments at these institutions. Since August of 2002, Amaral has served as faculty member at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University.

Dr. Amaral conducts and directs research that provides insight into the emergence, evolution, and stability of complex social and biological systems. His research aims to address some of the most pressing challenges facing human societies and the world's ecosystems, including the mitigation of errors in healthcare settings, the characterization of the conditions fostering innovation and creativity, or the growth limits imposed by sustainability. Professor Amaral has published over a hundred scientific peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals. Those papers have been cited in excess of 7 thousand times; ten having accumulated more than 200 citations each. His research has been featured in numerous media sources, both in the US and abroad. Professor Amaral has received a K25 CAREER award from the National Institutes of Health in 2003, was named to the 2006 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research by the W. M. Keck Foundation, and has been selected as an Earlier Career Scientist by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Marta Sales-Pardo

Marta Sales-Pardo, Ph.D. is working in understanding how initiatives such as that of the CTSA are achieving their goal of stimulating the creation of new research partnerships with the aim of tackling basic medical problems that are at the interface between disciplines. The purpose of this research is to pinpoint the mechanisms responsible for the creation of new successful partnerships through the use of Science of Team Science tools, including social and complex networks analysis and agent-based modeling.

Noshir Contractor

Noshir Contractor, Ph.D.is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in a wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, translational science and engineering communities, public health networks and virtual worlds. His research program has been funded continuously for over a decade by major grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation with additional current funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Air Force Office of Research Support, Army Research Institute, Army Research Laboratory and the MacArthur Foundation.

Professor Contractor has published or presented over 250 research papers dealing with communicating and organizing. His book titled Theories of Communication Networks (co-authored with Professor Peter Monge and published by Oxford University Press) received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association. He is the lead developer of C-IKNOW (Cyberinfrastructure for Inquiring Knowledge Networks On the Web), a socio-technical environment to understand and enable networks among communities, as well as Blanche, a software environment to simulate the dynamics of social networks."

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