Austin Van Loon
Assistant Professor Of Work And Organization Studies
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Van Loon is an organizational sociologist and assistant professor specializing in work, organizations, and the social dynamics of online platforms, with eight years of research experience across Stanford, Duke, and now MIT. His postdoctoral work with the Duke Polarization Lab focused on designing interventions to make social media less polarizing, blending experimental methods with computational approaches. Trained at Stanford (PhD) and the University of Iowa (BA/BSc), he brings rigorous field and lab research experience to questions about group processes, platform design, and organizational behavior. Based in Cambridge, he combines academic scholarship with practical lab management skills developed early in his career, and he is known for translating complex social-science findings into actionable recommendations for platform governance.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Sciences - B.Sc., Bachelor of Arts - B.A., Sociology, Psychology (minors in Music, Philosophy, and Informatics), Bachelor of Sciences - B.Sc., Bachelor of Arts - B.A., Sociology, Psychology (minors in Music, Philosophy, and Informatics) at University of IowaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Sociology at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (5)
Contributions:74 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
AustinVL/PeopleAnalyticsCourseMaterial
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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