Given the question: Facts: - residence: new haven , connecticut , united states - doctoral students: marcus , peter dewan , felix elwert , danielle harvey , alexander jack iwashyna , lei jin , david kim , sae , takada , alison hwong , mark pachucki , jessica perkins jonathan , ming wen , coren apicella -lrb- postdoc -rrb- , beauchamp sam arbesman -lrb- postdoc -rrb- , jason block -lrb- postdoc , -rrb- , damon centola -lrb- postdoc -rrb- , feng fu virginia -lrb- postdoc -rrb- , elizabeth lamont -lrb- postdoc -rrb- , w. jukka pekka onnela -lrb- postdoc -rrb- , niels rosenquist -lrb- chang postdoc -rrb- -lsb- http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pages/the-lab/subnav/students-colleagues.html] - field: sociology ; biosocial science , medicine - doctoral advisor: renee fox - work institution: university harvard university yale university of pennsylvania university of chicago harvard medical school - birth date: 07 may 1962 - name: nicholas a. christakis - image: nicholas christakis.jpg - birth place: united states - alma mater: yale university harvard medical school university of pennsylvania Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of nicholas a. christakis .
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nicholas a. christakis -lrb- born may 7 , 1962 -rrb- is an american sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic and biosocial determinants of behavior , health , and longevity .he is the sol goldman family professor of social and natural science at yale university .he directs the human nature lab , and he is the co-director of the yale institute for network science .until july 2013 , he was professor of medical sociology in the department of health care policy and a professor of medicine in the department of medicine at harvard medical school ; a professor of sociology in the department of sociology in the harvard faculty of arts and sciences ; and an attending physician at the harvard-affiliated mt. auburn hospital .from 2009 to 2013 , christakis and his wife , erika christakis , were co-masters of pforzheimer house , one of harvard 's twelve residential houses .in february 2015 , it was announced that christakis would become the new master of silliman college at yale university , perhaps the first person to serve in this role at both yale and harvard .in 2009 , he was named to the time 100 , time magazine 's list of the 100 most influential people in the world .in 2009 and again in 2010 , christakis was named by foreign policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers .he was elected to the institute of medicine of the national academy of sciences in 2006 , and he was named a fellow at the american association for the advancement of science in 2010 .