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.

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 addition, I serve as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Connections and as the Scientific Communications Editor of the journal Network Science.

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