Faculty & Research

Damon Centola

Assistant Professor of System Dynamics

Biography

Damon Centola received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University. He is currently a faculty member in Economic Sociology and System Dynamics at MIT. Damon's research focuses on the diffusion of collective behavior, including 1) social movements, 2) cultural differentiation, and 3) social epidemiology. His research won the 2006 American Sociological Association's Award for Outstanding Article in Mathematical Sociology, and has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Physica A, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Damon was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard University, and has been a visiting scholar at the Brookings
Institution, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Mediterranean Institute for Complex Systems.