Dr. Sander van Haperen is assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. He studies governance on the intersections of collective action, complexity, and digital technology, with a particular focus on conflict resolution and leadership. To that end, he develops a critical relational approach, combining qualitative inquiry with geographic analysis and computational methods such as network analysis, image recognition, and natural language processing. Following a dissertation examining the role of social media in the development of social movements such as Black Lives Matter, he published in a variety of journals about collective action and governance. He is currently studying governance in health care to shed light on the role of leadership in complex networks.