Mathijs De Vaan

Mathijs De Vaan is an Assistant Professor at the Haas School of Business. He earned his PhD from the Department of Sociology at Columbia University after defending his dissertation in June 2015. Mathijs’ main research agenda focuses on social networks in health care. Motivated by the high level of variation in the cost and quality of care, Mathijs’ research examines the role of relationships between patients, between physicians, and between patients and physicians in the emergence and persistence of this variation. A second line of inquiry focuses on inequality in the production of science.

Education
PhD, Sociology, Columbia University
MPhil, Sociology, Columbia University
PhD, Economics/Geography, Utrecht University
MA, Economics, Utrecht University
BA, Economics, Utrecht University
Positions Held
At Haas since July 2015
2015 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
Current Research and Interests
- Network Analysis - Health care management - Economic Sociology - Research Design and Methods

Selected Papers and Publications
- De Vaan, M., B. Vedres, and D. Stark. Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity. American Journal of Sociology 120 (4): 1144-1194. 2015. - De Vaan, M. Interfirm Networks in Periods of Technological Turbulence and Stability. Research Policy 43 (10): 1666-1680. 2014. - De Vaan, M., R.A. Boschma, and K. Frenken. Clustering and Firm Performance in Project-based Industries. Journal of Economic Geography 13 (6): 965-991. 2013. - Balland, P., M. De Vaan, and R.A. Boschma. The Dynamics of Interfirm Networks along the Industry Life Cycle. Journal of Economic Geography 13 (5): 741-765. 2013.

Teaching
- Leading People (MBA Core Course), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley - PhD Seminar, Research in Macro-Organizational Behavior