Tom Snijders

Tom Snijders was born in Tilburg, a son of Jan Snijders, professor of Psychology at Groningen University from 1949 to 1980, and Nan Snijders-Oomen, an internationally well-known child psychologist (author of the SON nonverbal intelligence test, 1943, 1978, 1991).

Many of his former Ph.D. students and postdocs have found academic positions and are at the forefront of their terrain, including Roel Bosker, Marijtje van Duijn, Roger Leenders, Chris Snijders, Albertine J.

(Tineke) Oldehinkel, Rafael Wittek, René Veenstra, Marcel van Assen, Christian Steglich, Miranda Lubbers, Per Block, and Nynke Niezink.

In 1998, together with others, he created Stocnet, an open software system for the advanced statistical analysis of social networks.

Together with professor Patrick Doreian of the University of Pittsburgh Tom Snijders edited the international scientific journal Social networks.