Arnout van de Rijt

Arnout van de Rijt is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute. Van de Rijt received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University in 2007 and worked until 2016 as Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University in the USA, and from 2016-2020 as Professor of Sociology and Designated Chair at Utrecht University. Van de Rijt is Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Science and serves on the editorial board of Social Networks. He is the President of the International Network of Analytical Sociology (INAS).

Van de Rijt's research interests span the broad areas of social network analysis, computational social science, collective action and social stratification. Van de Rijt received the 2017 Raymond Boudon Award for early career achievement from the EAS and the 2010 Freeman Award from the International Network of Social Network Analysis for distinguished scholarship in the field of social networks. He received six best article awards from ASA, ISSI, and INAS. His papers have been published in such journals as PNAS, American Sociological Review, and American Journal of Sociology.