Brennan Klein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the Department of Physics and core faculty at the Network Science Institute. He is the program director of the interdisciplinary MS in Complex Network Analysis. Prof. Klein is also the director of the Complexity & Society Lab, which is focused on two broad research areas: 1) Information, emergence, and communication in complex systems: developing tools and theory for characterizing dynamics, structure, and scale in networks, and 2) Data justice: drawing on complex systems science to document—and fight against—emergent or systemic disparities in society, especially as they relate to the U.S. criminal-legal system. He is also the director of NetSI Sport, an interdisciplinary research group studying team coordination, performance, and networks in elite sports.
In 2023, Prof. Klein was awarded the René Thom Young Researcher Award, given to a researcher to recognize substantial early career contributions and leadership in research in Complex Systems-related fields. Prof. Klein is the Data for Justice Fellow at the Institute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. He received a PhD in Network Science in 2020 from Northeastern University and earned his BA in Cognitive Science & Psychology from Swarthmore College in 2014.
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Communication Studies