He is affiliated with the Minnesota Population Center, The Life Course Center, and the Data Science program. Almquist is visiting the University of Washington from April to November, and is affiliated with the eSceince Institute and the Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences. Almquist’s interests include Social Network Analysis, Big Data, Social Media, Text Analysis, Computational Social Sciences, Mathematical Sociology, Methodology, Spatial Analysis, Demography, Public Health, and Human Judgment and Decision Making. His main research focus is on understanding, modeling, and predicting the effects space (geography) and time have on human interaction (e.g., friendship or needle sharing) and outcomes (e.g., disease or knowledge).