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Albert-László BARABÁSI
Founder, Center for Complex Network Research
Albert-László BARABÁSI is a Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research, and holds appointments in the Departments of Physics, Computer Science and Biology, as well as in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
A Hungarian-born native of Transylvania, Romania, he received his Masters in theoretical physics at the Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary and was awarded a PhD three years later at Boston University. After a year at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, he joined Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor, and in 2001 was promoted to the Emil T. Hofman Chair.
Barabási’s most recent book Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Dutton, 2010) is available in five languages, while his Linked: The New Science of Networks (Perseus, 2002) is available in eleven languages. He is the co-author of Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth (Cambridge, 1995), and The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton, 2005). His work led to the discovery of scale-free networks in 1999, and he proposed the Barabási-Albert model to explain their widespread emergence in natural, technological and social systems, from the cellular telephone to the World Wide Web or online communities. His work on complex networks has been widely featured in the media, including the cover story of Nature, Science News and many other journals.
A Hungarian-born native of Transylvania, Romania, he received his Masters in theoretical physics at the Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary and was awarded a PhD three years later at Boston University. After a year at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, he joined Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor, and in 2001 was promoted to the Emil T. Hofman Chair.
Barabási’s most recent book Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Dutton, 2010) is available in five languages, while his Linked: The New Science of Networks (Perseus, 2002) is available in eleven languages. He is the co-author of Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth (Cambridge, 1995), and The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton, 2005). His work led to the discovery of scale-free networks in 1999, and he proposed the Barabási-Albert model to explain their widespread emergence in natural, technological and social systems, from the cellular telephone to the World Wide Web or online communities. His work on complex networks has been widely featured in the media, including the cover story of Nature, Science News and many other journals.
