SXSW 2012

Associate Professor
Indiana University
Johan Bollen is associate professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (2009-present). He was formerly a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2005-2009). His research takes place at the intersection between informatics, computer science, network science, social science, and informetrics. His present interests include the development of quantitative tools for the assessment of scholarly impact from usage data (MESUR project) and the study of social phenomena such as public mood states and social contagion from large-scale online networking environments.