Arnout van de Rijt

Arnout van de Rijt is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute (EUI). Van de Rijt holds a PhD in Sociology from Cornell University (2007). Van de Rijt is Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Science, an open-access journal for social scientists committed to advancing a general understanding of social processes. He is President of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS), which bring together scholars with a common interest in social mechanisms and micro-macro dynamics. Van de Rijt is elected member and council member of the European Academy of Sociology (EAS), a fellowship with the aim to advance excellence in sociological scholarship.

His research spans the broad areas of social network analysis, computational social science, collective action and social stratification. Van de Rijt received the 2010 Lynton Freeman award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) for his contributions to social network analysis. He received the 2017 Raymond Boundon award for early career achievement from the EAS for his work on cumulative advantage. Van de Rijt has received competitive grants from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), and the Dutch Department of Defense. His work has appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Management Science.