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Soziologisches Institut Prof. Dr. Per Block

CV & Publications Per Block

Academic CV

Complete CV (Jul 2024) (PDF, 167 KB)

google scholar profile

Overview of education and positions

2003 - 2009

 Diplom in Chemistry at the University of Marburg
2009 - 2014

MSc and DPhil in Sociology at the University of Oxford
2014 - 2019 Postdoc, ETH fellow, and lecturer at the social network lab at the ETH Zurich
2020-2022 Research lecturer (~Asst. Prof) at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford
since 2023 SNFS Eccellenza Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich

Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

  • Raabe, I. J. & Block, P (2024). The gendered maths confidence gap, social integration, and social comparison. European Societies. Online first.
  • Block, P., Stadtfeld, C., & Keiser, N. (2023). MoNAn: Mobility Network Analysis. Note: Software package for use in R. https://github.com/stocnet/MoNAn.
  • Block, P., Keiser, N. (2023). Manual for MoNA in R. Zurich: University of Zurich, Department of Sociology. doi:10.31235/osf.io/8q2xu.
  • Hoffman, M., Block, P., & Snijders, T. (2023). Modelling partitions of individuals. Sociological Methodology. 53(1), 1-43.
  • Block, P. (2023). Understanding the self-organization of occupational sex segregation with mobility networks. Social Networks, 73, 42-50.
  • *Block, P. & *Burnett Heyes, S. (2022). Sharing the load: Contagion and Tolerance of Mood in Social Networks. Emotion. 22(6), 1193-1207.
  • Block, P., Stadtfeld, C., & Robins, G. (2022). A statistical model for the analysis of mobility tables as weighted networks with an application to faculty hiring networks. Social Networks, 68, 264-278.
  • Block, P., Hollway, J., Koskinen, J., Snijders, T. & Stadtfeld, C. (2022). Circular specifications and ‘predicting’ with information from the future: Errors in the empirical SAOM-TERGM comparison of Leifeld and Cranmer (2019). Network Science, 10(1), 3-14.
  • Block, P., Hoffman, M., Raabe, I. J., Dowd, J. B., Rahal, C., Kashyap, R. & Mills, M. C. (2020). Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world. Nature Human Behavior, 4(6), 588–596.
  • Dowd, J. B., Block, P., Rotondi, V., & Mills, M. C. (2020). Dangerous to claim “no clear association” between intergenerational relationships and COVID-19. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 117(42), 25975-25976.
  • Dowd, J. B., Andriano, L., Brazel, D. M., Rotondi, V., Block, P., Ding, X., Liu, Y. & Mills, M. C. (2020). Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 117(18), 9696-9698.
  • Hoffman, M., Block, P., Elmer, T., & Stadtfeld, C. (2020). A model for the dynamics of face-to-face interactions in social groups. Network Science, 8(S1), S4-S25.
  • *Vörös, A., *Block, P. & *Boda, Z. (2019). Limits to inferring status from friendship relations. Social Networks, 59, 77-97.
  • Block, P., Stadtfeld, C. & Snijders, T. A. B.  (2019). Forms of Dependence: Comparing SAOMs and ERGMs from Basic Principles. Sociological Methods and Research, 48(1), 202-239.
  • *Lopes, P. C., *Block, P., Pontiggia, A., Lindholm, A. & König, B. (2018). No evidence for kin protection in the expression of sickness behaviors in house mice. Scientific Reports, 8.
  • Block, P. (2018). Network Evolution and Social Situations. Sociological Science, 5, 402-431.
  • *Block, P., *Heathcote, L. C. & *Burnett Heyes, S. (2018). Social Interaction and Pain: An Arctic Expedition. Social Science and Medicine, 196, 47-56.
  • Block, P., Koskinen, J., Hollway, J., Steglich, C. & Stadtfeld, C. (2018). Change we can believe in: Comparing longitudinal network models on consistency, interpretability and predictive power. Social Networks, 52(1), 180-191.
  • Stadtfeld, C., Hollway, J. & Block, P. (2017). Dynamic Network Actor Models: Investigating Coordination Ties through Time. Sociological Methodology, 47, 1-40.
  • Stadtfeld, C., Hollway, J. & Block, P. (2017). DyNAMs and the Grounds for Actor-Oriented Network Event Models: A Rejoinder to Snijders and Butts. Sociological Methodology, 47, 56-67.
  • Stadtfeld, C. & Block, P. (2017). Interactions, Actors, and Time: Dynamic Network Actor Models for Relational Events. Sociological Science, 4, 318-352.
  • Lopes, P. C., Block, P. & König, B. (2016). Infection-induced behavioural changes reduce connectivity and the potential for disease spread in wild mice contact networks. Scientific Reports, 6.
  • Block, P. (2015). Reciprocity, transitivity and the mysterious three-cycle. Social Networks, 40(1), 163-173.
  • *Burnett Heyes, S., *Jih, Y.-R., *Block, P., Holmes, E. & J. Lau. (2015). Relationship Reciprocity Modulates Cooperative Investment in Late- but not Mid-Adolescent Real-world Social Networks. Child Development, 86(5), 1489–1506.
  • Block, P. & Grund, T. (2014). Multidimensional Homophily in Friendship Networks. Network Science, 2(2), 189-212.