Description

JP Onnela is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is interested in a broad range of theoretical and applied problems in network science. His current research focuses on statistical and mathematical analysis and modeling of social and biological networks and their connection to human health; development of metrics and methods for network analysis; and online social systems and social media. Before joining Biostatistics, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and before that one year as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School. He held a Junior Research Fellowship at Oxford University from 2006 to 2008 after obtaining his doctorate at the Helsinki University of Technology in 2006.