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Dr. Natalia Lorinkova is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Human Resource Management for the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State. She completed her PhD in Management at the R. H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Dr. Lorinkova's research focuses on leadership and workplace diversity issues, with emphasis on dynamic and multi-level leadership processes and accent, body image, and invisible disability issues in organizations. She also examines interpersonal dynamics in non-traditional work arrangements such as virtual teams, teleworking, and working from home. From a methodological perspective, Dr. Lorinkova is interested in growth modeling, multi-level modeling, and polynomial surface plotting techniques. Her research has appeared in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Most recently, she won the Personnel Psychology Best Paper Award.