Brian Uzzi is an American sociologist and the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Before entering academia, Uzzi worked as a musician in the New York City area where he grew up and his grandparents settled after immigrating from Italy to the US.
His book, Athena Unbound (Cambridge 2000[22]) and a 1994 Science article[23] studied the link between women scientists' careers, the leaky pipeline, and critical mass dynamics.
A 2019 Nature paper[24] looked at gender disparities in scientific prizes, examining biomedical awards over five decades.
Related publications have examined mentorship, retractions, replication failure, knowledge hotspots, and AI-human partnerships.