Welcome to Professor Philip Leifeld
New staff member, Professor Philip Leifield, has written a short biography introducing himself and his work.
I am a Professor of Social Statistics in the at 黑料网吃瓜爆料, which is part of the . I am also a member of the and the .
Before joining 黑料网吃瓜爆料 in April 2024, I was a Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.
I am also a DFG Mercator Fellow in the Research Training Group on Digital Platform Ecosystems at the University of Passau (2022-2027) and serve as chair of the Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2024-2025.
My main research interests are politics and public policy, network analysis and complex systems, statistical modelling, and computational social sciences. I am best known for my work on discourse network analysis (and the software ), the R package, and my work on statistical models for longitudinal network data (e.g., implemented in the R package).
My research has appeared in leading political science journals (e.g., AJPS, JOP, BJPS), public policy and administration journals (e.g., PSJ, JPART), technical journals (e.g., Physica A: Statistical Mechanics, Network Science, JStatSoft), and outlets in other fields (e.g., Nature Climate Change, Addiction, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin).
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