My name is Alejandro Espinosa-Rada. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Sociological Research at KU Leuven in Belgium. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Social Networks Lab at ETH Zurich, and I completed my PhD in Sociology at the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester. 

My main areas of interest lie at the intersection of Group Dynamics, Organizational Sociology, Sociology of Social Networks, Sociology of Science and Knowledge, and Network Modelling. I am also the developer and maintainer of the CRAN R package netmem: Network Measures using Matrices, which provides tools for matrix-based network analysis and measurement.

I serve as Director of the Chilean Society for Social Network Science (CHISOCNET), Co-Editor-in-Chief of Connections and Scientific Communications Editor of the journal Network Science

You can also check out Knitting Networks, the Social Network Science podcast, which I co-host with Francisca Ortiz. Episodes are available in Spanish and English, and the podcast is endorsed by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).

In my spare time, I enjoy practising Capoeira and playing the keyboard (progressive rock).