Recently Published Research:
- Candia, Cristian and Brian Uzzi. "Quantifying the Selective Forgetting and Integration of Ideas in Science and Technology", American Psychologist, Vol. 76, No. 6, 1067–1087, 2021 (PDF VERSION)
- Jin, Ching, Yifang Ma and Brian Uzzi. "Scientific prizes and the extraordinary growth of scientific topics", Nature Communications, 12, 5619 (2021)
Recent Media Hits:
Kellogg Insight: Take 5: How to Become an Expert in Something New (October 2021)
Physics: Evaluating the Role of Scientific Awards (Article by Ching Jin and Brian Uzzi, October 2021)
Brian Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also co-directs the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), and holds professorships in Sociology and the McCormick School of Engineering. He has been on or visited the faculties of INSEAD, Chicago, Harvard, and Berkeley. His work has received 15 teaching prizes and 13 scientific research prizes worldwide in the social, physical, and computer sciences.
His research uses social network science and computational methods to explain outstanding human achievement. Media outlets featuring his research include the WSJ, Newsweek, The Economist, The New Yorker, Fortune, other media outlets and TV, and scientific journals in management, physics, ecology, sociology, medicine, economics, psychology, and computer science have covered or published his research. Grants for his research have come from the U.S. government and private agencies.