Filip Agneessens

Filip Agneessens serves as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy, with contact details including office location at Via Verdi, 26 - 38122 Trento and email filip.agneessens@unitn.it. His academic role focuses on advancing social network methodologies within sociological and organizational contexts.

His research expertise encompasses Group dynamics, Social network analysis, Organizational behavior, and Diversity management, with particular emphasis on negative ties in networks, ethnic diversity effects, and methodological innovations for workplace network studies. This interdisciplinary focus bridges sociology, psychology, and organizational science to examine how network structures shape group processes and individual outcomes.

Agneessens' recent publications reveal consistent scholarly contributions in social network analysis across domains including education (e.g., bullying dynamics in schools), public administration (governance networks), and organizational behavior (workplace conflict). His work demonstrates methodological leadership through the 2022 book Analyzing Social Networks Using R and empirical studies applying longitudinal and multilevel network approaches to real-world group phenomena.