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Professor Albert-László Barabási   Telephone:   617.373.2355
Fax: 617.373.4385
Email: a.barabasi (at) neu.edu   Postal Address:  

Center for Complex Network Research - Barabási Lab

Northeastern University Physics Department
110 Forsyth St., 111 Dana Research Center
Boston, MA 02115 USA

About László

Albert-László Barabási is a Distinguished University 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 Hospital, and is a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. A Hungarian born native of Transylvania, Romania, he received his Masters in Theoretical Physics at the Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary and was awarded a Ph.D. 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 Professor and the Emil T. Hofman Chair. Barabási is the author of Linked: The New Science of Networks, currently available in eleven languages. He is the co-author of Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth (Cambridge, 1995), and the co-editor of The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton, 2005). His work lead to the discovery of scale-free networks in 1999, and proposed the Barabasi-Albert model to explain their widespread emergence in natural, technological and social systems, from the cellular telephone to the WWW or online communities.

His work on complex networks have been widely featured in the media, including the cover of Nature, Science News and many other journals, and written about in Science, Science News, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, American Scientist, Discover, Business Week, Die Zeit, El Pais, Le Monde, London’s Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, New Scientist, and La Republica, among others. He has been interviewed by BBC Radio, National Public Radio, CBS and ABC News, CNN, NBC, and many other media outlets.

Barabási is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2005 he was awarded the FEBS Anniversary Prize for Systems Biology and in 2006 the John von Neumann Medal by the John von Neumann Computer Society from Hungary, for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology. In 2004 he was elected into the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and in 2007 into the Academia Europaea.

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Education

  • 1986-1989, University of Bucharest, major in physics and engineering
  • M.Sc., 1991, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, in physics; advisor T. Vicsek
  • Ph.D., 1994, Boston University, in physics; advisor H.E. Stanley

Employment and Teaching Experience:

  • 1989-91, Research Institute for Technical Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Research Assistant
  • 1991-92, Boston University, Teaching Assistant
  • 1992-94, Boston University, Research Assistant
  • 1994-95, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Physical Sciences Department, Postdoctoral Associate
  • 1995-99, University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor
  • 2000, Institute of Advanced Studies, Collegium Budapest, Senior Fellow
  • 1999-2000, University of Notre Dame, Associate Professor
  • 2005-2006, Harvard University, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Visiting Professor
  • 2004-2007, Center for Complex Network Research, University of Notre Dame, Director
  • 2000-2007, University of Notre Dame, Emil T. Hofman Professor
  • 2005-present, University of Notre Dame, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
  • 2007-present, Northeastern University, Distinguished University Professor
  • 2007-present, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Director
  • 2007-present, Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University

Scholarships, Fellowships, Honors, Awards:

  • 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 Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • 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 the Academia Europaea