“Attention is the beginning of devotion” - Mary Oliver

General

My research interests cover both the physical and social sciences, and I’ve been lucky enough to engage in serious attempts at both. I’m not a social scientist by training so, for any social science research, I’ve worked extremely closely with (far) more knowledgeable collaborators.

Peer-reviewed publications can be found here, here, or here.

Non peer-reviewed publications can be found here.

My work and writing has also appeared in the Harvard Business Review Online (here and here), Forbes.com (here and here), Wirtschafts Woche, PMLiVE, Clayton Christensen Institute, Google re:Work, and Scientific American.

Physical sciences

I’m a theoretical chemist by training, which means I’ve spent a number of years applying ideas from the mathematics, physics, and computer science communities to problems of chemical interest.

Early on in my career I worked on small model quantum systems and the problem of electron correlation. I then transitioned into what might be described as more ‘applied’ computational chemistry, with a focus on using these tools in the service of drug discovery.

Social Sciences

At some point I started thinking about organizations as graphs (edges and nodes). This led me to work with some organizational network theorists. This evolved into thinking about traits, and into collaborations with scientists who focus on understanding traits at the individual level.

A summary of the output of this work, can be found here. Much of this informs the work we do at interstitio, and you can read more about that here.