About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School. My research clarifies the microfoundations of dynamic social processes at work, offering actionable insights for individuals, teams, and organizations that want to turn network knowledge into a competitive advantage. 

I study how workplace networks are shaped by organizational structure and individual agency, and how the resulting relationship patterns affect performance, equality, and innovation. I pursue this agenda through three streams.

First, I examine how individual attributes, structural arrangements, and situational shocks drive the evolution of actual and perceived networks, along with the affective, cognitive, and behavioral mechanisms that link these dynamics to work outcomes. For example: how do assignments to projects of differing complexity or status create unequal opportunities to build human and social capital, and how does that shape socialization, performance, and career advancement? 

Second, I study how inequality arises in actual and perceived networks, and I identify levers that reduce it. For example: why are women's networks seen and interpreted in systematically disadvantageous ways, and with what consequences?  

Third, I investigate how networks create both opportunities and constraints for innovation, specifying the conditions that amplify their benefits and limit their costs. For example: how do people mobilize specific ties to refine creative ideas and move them from concept to impact?

Across these streams, I combine multi-wave field studies, advanced network-analytic methods, and mechanism-focused experiments. As this program matures, I aim to co-develop evidence-based interventions with field partners to build workplaces where employees thrive, teams perform, and innovation flourishes. 

Prior to joining LBS, I was an Assistant Professor of Management at the Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky. I earned my Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy in 2024. I hold an M.S. in Public Administration and Government from the LSE–Peking University Double Degree Program (2016) and a B.S. in Bioengineering from Peking University (2014), with a minor in International Relations. Before joining Heinz, I worked as a data analyst in Beijing. 

For more information, please visit my research page and teaching page or download my full CV.