Prof. Dr. Albert-László Barabási
Albert-László Barabási is a globally renowned and respected Hungarian physicist and network scientist known for his research and achievements in the field of network science and complex systems. He pursued his university studies at the University of Bucharest in physics and engineering between 1986 and 1989, and then completed a master’s degree in physics at Eötvös Loránd University in 1991, specializing in fractal theory. He earned his Ph.D. in 1994 from Boston University. Following this, he worked at IBM, where he became closely acquainted with network theory, which later became his field of expertise.
The world-famous scientist of Transylvanian origin was a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana until 2007. He currently works in Boston at Northeastern University and Harvard. Since 2007, he has been the director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University. He has been a member of the American Physical Society since 2003, Academia Europaea since 2007, and an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2004.
According to Google Scholar, his publications have received 274,117 citations, and his h-index is 163. Over the past years, Albert-László Barabási has received numerous prestigious awards, including:
- 1990-91 Republican Fellowship of the Republic of Hungary
- 1990-91 Fellowship of Cel Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
- 1991 TEMPUS Fellowship, European Community, University of Köln
- 1991 Soros Foundation Publication and Mobility Grant
- 1997 NSF CAREER Award
- 1998 ONR Young Investigator Award
- 1999 Distinguished Scholar Lecturer, College of Science, University of Notre Dame
- 2000 Keynote Speaker, Collocation Summit, Washington D.C.
- 2001 Nivo Prize for the best physics article, Fizikai Szemle (Hungary)
- 2002 Presidential Award, University of Notre Dame
- 2002 Editorial Board, ComPlexUs and Fractals
- 2002 ISI: Fast Breaking Paper in Physics (Reviews of Modern Physics 76, 69 (2002))
- 2002 ISI: Highly Cited (Nature 407, 651 (2000))
- 2002 Keynote Speaker, Biotechnology Ventures, San Francisco
- 2003 Keynote Speaker, 4th Georgia Tech International Conference in Bioinformatics, Atlanta
- 2003 Editorial Board of Internet Mathematics
- 2003 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2004 Barton Childs Lecture, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
- 2004 Keynote Speaker, BioADIT 2004, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2004 Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2005 FEBS Anniversary Prize for Systems Biology
- 2006 John Von Neumann Medal and Award for Computer Science
- 2006 Media Legend Award, University of Notre Dame
- 2007 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2008 C&C Prize Recipient, NEC C&C Foundation
- 2008 Cozzarelli Prize, National Academies of Sciences, USA
- 2009 APS Outstanding Referee
- 2011 LeGrange Prize in Complexity
- 2011 Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
