Damon centola biography

Damon Centola Biography

Damon Centola is an Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the diffusion of collective behavior including social movements cultural differentiation and social epidemiology. 

 

Centola was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard University and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution the Santa Fe Institute and the Mediterranean Institute for Complex Systems. He was awarded the 2006 American Sociological Association’s Award for Outstanding Article in Mathematical Sociology and his work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology Physica A and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Centola holds a BA in philosophy from Marlboro College and an MA and PhD in sociology from Cornell University.
 

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Damon Centola studies social networks and behavior change. His work identifies the social causes of disease outbreaks; the origins of political conflict and ideological polarization; and the dynamics of tipping points in social norms.

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Biography

Damon Centola is a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, the Department of Sociology, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group. He is a leading world expert on social networks and behavior change. His work has been published in Science, Nature Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academ

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Annenberg School for Communication
3620 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6220
Phone: (215) 898-7954
Fax: (215) 898-2024
Email:damon.centola@asc.upenn.edu

Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering
Director, Network Dynamics Group
Senior Fellow, Penn LDI, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
Faculty, Warren Center for Networks and Data Science
Faculty, Master of Behavior and Decision Sciences Program
University of Pennsylvania

Curriculum Vitæ

Damon Centola is the Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

Damon’s research centers on social networks and behavior change. His work has received numerous scientific awards, including the Goodman Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Sociological Methodology in 2011; the James Coleman Award for Outstanding Research in Rationality and Society in 2017; and the Harrison White Award for Ou

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