Steve W. J. Kozlowski, PhD
Steve W. J. Kozlowski, Ph.D. is a World Class Scholar and Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida (he was previously at Michigan State University). He is a recognized expert in the areas of dynamic multilevel organizational systems theory and computational process theorizing; team leadership and team effectiveness; and learning, development, and adaptation. The goal of his programmatic research is to generate actionable theory, research-based principles, and deployable tools to develop adaptive individuals, teams, and organizations. His research has generated over $11M in funded work and is, or has been, supported by the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), among others. He has produced over 500 articles, books, chapters, reports, and presentations; his work has been cited over 47,000 times (Google Scholar); and his impact is ranked among the top 2% of all scientists in the world (Ioannidis, Boyack, & Baas, 2020). Dr. Kozlowski is a recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups. He is the Editor for the Oxford Series on Organizational Psychology and Behavior and Editor for the SIOP/Oxford Organizational Science, Translation, and Application Series. He is the former Editor-in-Chief and a former Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Management and The Leadership Quarterly, and has served on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Human Factors, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management Association, American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP), and SIOP. He is a member of the APA Publications and Communications Board (P&C, 2021-2026; Chair 2025-2026) and the P&C Journals Advisory Committee (Chair, 2024-2025). He is a Past-President of SIOP (2015-2016), a former SIOP Research and Science Officer (2017-2023), and a former member of the APA Advocacy Coordinating Committee (2019-2021). He was the first Chair of the APA Open Science and Methodology Committee (2019-2020). Dr. Kozlowski received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Rhode Island, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in organizational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University.
Chu-Hsiang (Daisy) Chang, PhD
Chu-Hsiang (Daisy) Chang, Ph.D., is a professor at the Department of Psychology of Michigan State University, with a joint courtesy appointment at the Department of Management. She received her Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Akron. Her research interests focus on issues related to occupational stress, workplace violence, and how employee motivation and organizational leadership intersect with issues concerning employee health and well-being. She has worked on multiple funded research projects that involve interdisciplinary research teams, and collaborated with researchers from engineering, ergonomics, geography, industrial hygiene, media and information studies, medicine, nursing, and physical therapy. She has mentored students from a variety of backgrounds, including industrial hygiene, nursing, occupational health medicine, occupational safety, psychology, and public health. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychological Bulletin, and Work & Stress. She has served as an associated editor at Applied Psychology: An International Review and Journal of Organizational Behavior, and was an associate editor at Applied Psychology: An International Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Applied Psychology.
Jeff Olenick, PhD
Jeffery Olenick, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Georgia where he heads the Creating Our Future for Equitable Employment (COFFEE) Lab. He received his Doctorate in Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University in May 2020, previously attended the University of Chicago for a Master’s degree in the Social Sciences, and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and History. He studies the dynamics of individual and team learning and development, the intersection of IO psychology with social systems, and the methods used to study such topics. In particular, he applies computational models to study a variety of organizational and social phenomena. Current projects on these topics include data from the United States Special Operations Forces, and teams in space flight analogues at the Johnson Space Center, and deployed to the ice shelf in Antarctica. He also studies the role of organizations in socioeconomic inequality. His work has been published in peer reviewed outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Proceedings, Organizational Psychology Review, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, Group and Organization Management, The European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, among others, as well as been presented at international conferences such as Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Academy of Management.
Daniel Griffin, PhD
Dr. Daniel J. Griffin is an assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of South Florida. He earned a Dual Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and Computational Mathematics from Michigan State University. As a Ph.D. student he was awarded the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) for his work studying team-resilience and using mathematical models to build a framework for studying team performance in human-agent teams. Dr. Griffin is fascinated by studying how social connection, effective leadership, and shapes a team. In his research is primarily leverages techniques such as social network analysis, computational modeling, dynamic/longitudinal statistics, and machine learning to study these phenomena from a process-oriented perspective. Daniel’s ongoing research spans topics ranging from goal orientation in Human Agent Teaming (HAT) to a network-based conceptualization of emergent cognition and objective metrics of team coordination. Dr. Griffin’s research has been funded by various sources including the Army Research Office (ARO), the Army Research Institute (ARI), the Office and Naval Research (ONR), and Negotiation and Team Resources Institute (NTR). His work has been published in several highly ranked journals including Organizational Research Methods, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Ajay Somaraju, PhD
Ajay V. Somaraju, Ph.D. is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of South Florida. He received his Doctorate at Michigan State University in 2023. Ajay is a past recipient of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Research Fellowship, as well as the Ford Motor Company Blue Oval Scholarship for workforce analytics. His research interests primarily involve the microfoundations of human capital emergence. As a result, his current research ranges widely, but generally involves takes a multilevel perspective to the questions of (a) who organizations should hire, (b) how organizations should structure work, and (c) the reciprocal influence between organizational practices and external labor market characteristics. Due to the complexity inherent to multilevel research, he is also interested in the methodologies used to advance organizational science, including the use of computational modeling for theory building, and social networks and time series analysis for theory testing. His research has been published in outlets such as Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Health and Occuptational Psychology, and Journal of Applied Psychology.
Kristin Eggler, MS
Kristen Eggler (M.S., Old Dominion University) is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia. Kristen conducts research broadly related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Her research applies different methodologies (e.g., qualitative analysis, social network analysis) to better understand barriers to employee inclusion and organizational practices that promote equity. Kristen has published several book chapters and has published in Group & Organizational Management and Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Jenna Bowker
Jenna Bowker is a PhD student in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program at the University of South Florida. She completed her bachelor’s of science at Wayne State University with a double major in psychology and statistics and a minor in mathematics. Her main research interests are teams, diversity and inclusion, and leadership. Her undergraduate honors thesis was titled, “The Impact of Gender on the Relationship Between Job Performance and Promotion” and sought to examine the disparity of women in higher levels of management.