Steve W. J. Kozlowski, PhD
Steve W. J. Kozlowski, Ph.D., is a World Class Scholar and Professor at the University of South Florida (previously he was at Michigan State University). He is a recognized authority in the areas of multilevel organizational systems theory; 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 39,000 times (Google Scholar). Dr. Kozlowski is a recipient of the 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 new 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 American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science, the International Association for Applied Psychology, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He was the first Chair of the APA Open Science and Methodology Committee (2019-2020), serves as the SIOP Research and Science Officer (2017-2023), is a member of the APA Publications and Communications Board (2021-2026), and is a former member of the APA Advocacy Coordinating Committee (2019-2021). He is a Past-President of SIOP (2015-2016). Dr. Kozlowski received his BA in psychology from the University of Rhode Island, and his MS and PhD 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 an Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Old Dominion University. 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 Organizational Psychology Review, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, and 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, MA
Daniel is finishing a Dual Ph.D. degree in Organizational Psychology and Computational Mathematics Science and Engineering. His primary research interests are centered around teams. He studies the process-mechanisms driving emergent phenomenon in teams and their impact on team outcomes such as performance and resilience. Specifically he is interested in the role of social processes (e.g., conflict), interdependence, and leadership in team emergent phenomena. He relies on advanced analytical techniques including spectral graph theory, harmonic analysis, and computational modeling to investigate the complexities of team systems. In 2020 he received the prestigious 3-year NDSEG fellowship and has also received more than $10,000 in funding from other internal and external sources of funding to support his research program as a graduate student.
Ajay Somaraju, MA
Ajay Somaraju is a fourth-year Organizational Psychology Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University. As a researcher he leverages advanced statistical methods and computational techniques to identify optimal organizational structures and teamwork configurations. As a practitioner, he productizes these methods to develop tools that help companies improve their employee experience and organizational efficiency. Ajay is a recipient of the National Defense and Engineering Science Graduate (NDSEG) Research Fellowship and the Ford Motor Company Blue Oval Scholarship for workforce analytics. His research has been presented at conferences such as the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and International Association of Conflict Management, and he has published in outlets such as Organizational Research Methods, the Journal of Health and Occupational Psychology, and the International Journal of Arts and Sciences.