The Raymond Boudon Award for Early Career Achievement, named after one of the staunch supporters of the EAS, Raymond Boudon, has been established to promote rigorous standards in Sociology and to recognize scholars under age 40 or within ten years after defending their dissertation. Texts describe the winners at the time they received the award.

Milena Tsvetkova is a Associate Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She completed her PhD in Sociology at Cornell University and postdoctoral research at the Oxford Internet Institute. In her research, she uses large-scale online experiments, network analysis, machine learning, and computational modeling to study fundamental social phenomena such as cooperation, contagion, segregation, and inequality in human and human-machine social systems. Her work has been sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Germany’s Volkswagen Foundation, published in high-impact journals such as Sociological Methods and Research, New Media & Society, Nature Human Behaviour, and Science Advances, and covered by, e.g., The New York Times, The Guardian, and Science.

Kristian Bernt Karlson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Karlson received his PhD from Aarhus University in 2013 and became tenured Associate Professor in the Copenhagen sociology department in 2016. Karlson’s work spans substantive research in educational and social stratification and methodological research on nonlinear probability models. His work appears in the leading disciplinary outlets such as American Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, Sociological Methods & Research, and Sociological Science. He is PI of an ERC-funded project on the social class mobility of siblings in comparative perspective, co-leading an interdisciplinary research center on education research, and is Associate Editor of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

Ozan Aksoy is a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Department of Social Science, University College London. His research develops in two strands, namely cooperation and prosocial behaviour, and the political sociology of religion. He uses laboratory experiments, natural experiments, observational data, and formal modelling as research tools. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Nuffield College Centre for Experimental Social Sciences and at the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in sociology from Utrecht University. His work is published in leading sociology journals including American Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, and Sociological Science.

Arnout van de Rijt is a professor of sociology, European University Institute for his influential work in various areas within sociology including social networks, collective action, mathematical sociology, and computational and experimental methods. Much of his research revolves around the phenomenon of “cumulative advantage”: One success leads to the next. As a result, small, arbitrary differences between people, products or ideas can with time grow into large inequalities based entirely on thin air. His work is published in top sociology journals including  American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review.