Silvan Daniel Baier

Research Interests: Computational Social Science, Knowledge, Networks, Organizations, Sociology of Science

Silvan Baier is a PhD student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He studies how social structures shape and are shaped by the organization, spread, and evaluation of ideas and people. In his research, he primarily uses computational methods and relies on large-scale archival data.

Before Harvard, Silvan was an Empirical Research Fellow in the Management & Organizations Department at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He received an MA in Computational Social Science from the University of Chicago and a BA in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen.

Previous degrees:
B.A. in Business Administration, University of St. Gallen
M.A. in Computational Social Science, University of Chicago