Noshir Contractor

Noshir Contractor will use his time at CASBS to co-author a book, Some Assembly Required: Stellar Teams from Earth to Mars, with Leslie DeChurch. Drawing on over two decades of pioneering work in network science and computational social science, the book will offer a framework for designing effective human and human-AI teams in complex environments—from NASA missions to scientific collaborations and hybrid workplaces.

Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, with appointments in communication, engineering, and management. He is recognized for his multitheoretical, multilevel (MTML) framework that has shaped contemporary approaches to studying social networks. His research, featured in journals such as Science, Nature, PNAS, and Harvard Business Review, focuses on understanding how networks form, function, and can be designed for impact. During his fellowship, he will develop actionable strategies to bridge gaps between network structures and social dynamics, social and computational methods, and theory and practice. His aim is to make social science more prescriptive and intervention-oriented in addressing today’s societal and technological challenges.
 

For more information, please visit http://nosh.northwestern.edu