Welcome to the homepage of Christian Steglich
Who I am
German expat since the era Kohl. In a long-term relationship. Father of two grown-up children. Noir existentialism aficionado. Hobby beekeeper. Former Greenpeace activist.
Carrier of the Bionade-Biedermeier label.
For red tape detail, check my CV (link above);
for some personal info, click the link in the upper right corner.
When you see no links there, click here.
What I do
I work as a mathematical sociologist and network researcher at the Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen) and at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University).
My research focuses on the formal modelling and inferential-statistical analysis of socio-centric social networks, and - since short - on the network analysis of register data.
My published work is focused on the formal modelling of social network structure and social network dynamics, with emphasis on social influence processes in the context of a changing network. Over the years, my work has shifted to a broader orientation, including networks in educational settings, the co-evolution of multiple networks, and the analysis of emergent macro- and meso-level phenomena by micro-level modelling, such as normative behaviour, social hierarchies, and subgroup structures in networks.
In my work, I combine empirical calibration of models to data sets for purposes of statistical inference with empirically informed simulation studies. Far too often in empirical network research, hypotheses are formulated with insufficient consideration of what the null hypothesis should be. In social simulation studies, a related predicament is the study of simulated networks that do not match their empirical counterparts on important dimensions.
Some temporally close events and activities that I will be (or recently have been) involved in are these:- The decision is made: The next conference I will attend is Sunbelt (Paris, 23-29 June). Please look forward to presentations by Alla Loseva, Zhiyi Jin, Daniel Gotthardt, Rahul Kumar Singh, and Stepan Zaretckii!
- 12-13 March 2025, I participated in a meeting dedicated to the study of Inequality in Networks and Relationships that took place in Cologne; organizer of the event was Philip Roth. My contribution addressed Education Reform in Singapore to Address Segregation and Social Mixing in Schools.
- On 27 January 2025, I contributed a lecture to the meeting series of the Special Interest Group on Network Science organized by Mahdi Shafiee Kamalabad at the University of Utrecht. My contribution addressed Rewiring as a Reason for Peer-led Network Intervention Failure.
- 20-24 January 2025, together with Tom Snijders and Anita van der Hoek, I was organising the 15th Winter School on Longitudinal Social Network Analysis & Advanced Siena Users' Meeting (ADSUM-2025) that again took place at the University of Groningen.
This list was updated on 16 March 2025. For a list of earlier activities, please visit this page. For up-to-date information about my research and teaching activities, please consult my CV.
How I came here
My first academic education was a study of mathematics and information science at
the TU Berlin.
Not wanting to spend my life proving theorems or optimising some company's profits, I got enticed with the idea of applying mathematical thinking and modelling in the still thoroughly underformalised social sciences. The opportunity to do so came when the ICS Research School accepted me as a Ph.D. candidate. My thesis project was about the stochastic modelling of cultural and situational context effects on individual decision making. The resulting dissertation entitled The Framing of Decision Situations was defended 18th of September, 2003. Since 2002 I have been working on social networks, beginning with an NWO-funded Dutch national project ('aandachtsgebied') on co-evolving social networks and behaviour. I am grateful for Tom Snijders' mentorship throughout these years!
Where to find things
These webpages contain my cv and information about my research and teaching activities, plus some older downloadable papers and presentations. Make use of the menu above for navigating on the site! If you don't see a menu, click here to reload this page in its correct framing.
How to contact me
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Christian Steglich fon: +46-11-363 361 |
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Christian Steglich fon: +31-50-363 6189 |