Albert-László Barabási

ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI is the Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches and directs research on complex networks. A Hungarian born native of Transylvania, as an undergraduate student he worked as a scientific correspondent for the largest Hungarian general audience weekly in Bucharest. After receiving his Masters in Theoretical Physics at the Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, he 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, to be promoted Professor and Endowed Chair at the unprecedented age of 33. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award and the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Award.

He is the author of Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means; co-author of a successful monograph on fractals and surfaces entitled Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth, which is by far the most cited text in this area. His seminal work on complex networks, 19 degrees of separation, the Internet’s Achilles Heel, and on the topology of cellular networks has been widely featured in the media, including the cover of Nature, 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, La Republica. He has been interviewed by BBC Radio, National Public Radio, CBS and ABC News, CNN, NBC, and many other media outlets.

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