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Dr. Ramona Roller is a Researcher in Sociology at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University. She is affiliated with the Chair Buskens Social Networks, Solidarity and Inequality and contributes to the Institutions for Open Societies (IOS) initiative, specifically focusing on Behaviour and Institutions and In-Equality research areas.
Her research expertise spans Analytical Sociology, Experimental Sociology, Computational Humanities, Computational Social Sciences, and Network Analysis. Dr. Roller employs a complex systems perspective to study how local human interactions give rise to global group phenomena. Her work focuses on two main areas: cooperation in modern work teams and the diffusion of ideas in historical societies.
In her research on contemporary teams, Dr. Roller investigates fair, productive, and sustainable cooperation through the spontaneous emergence of roles in software development teams. She is part of the SCOOP project (Sustainable COOPeration), collaborating with Rafael Wittek from Groningen and Vincent Buskens from Utrecht.
On a societal level, she studies the evolution and spread of ideas during the Reformation in 16th-century Europe using letter correspondences of scholars. This interdisciplinary work involves collaboration with researchers from historiography, theology, and linguistics to address complex challenges in historical analysis.
Dr. Roller applies diverse research methodologies including field studies, behavioral experiments, social network analysis, spatio-temporal modeling, and causal inference methods. Her recent publications demonstrate expertise in computational approaches to historical data, particularly in analyzing 16th-century correspondence networks and territorial concepts.