Alessandro Vespignani
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Sternberg Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Physics College of Computer and Information Sciences Bouve' College of Health Sciences Northeastern University Contact Information 132-B Nightingale Hall Northeastern University · 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Email: a.vespignani[at]neu[dot]edu Twitter: @alexvespi Biography | Publications | Travel schedule | Google Scholar Citations |
Biography
Prof. Vespignani received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D., both in physics and both from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” in 1990 and 1993 respectively. He completed his postdoctoral research at Yale University and Leiden University. Prof. Vespignani worked at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (UNESCO) in Trieste and at the University of Paris-Sud in France as a member of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) before moving to Indiana University in 2004. Before joining Northeastern University Vespignani was J.H.Rudy Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University and serving as the Director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research and the Associate Director of the Pervasive Technology Institute. Vespignani is elected fellow of the American Physical Society, member of the Academy of Europe, and fellow of the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is serving in the board/leadership of a variety of professional association and journals and the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation.
Vespignani has worked in a number of areas of non-equilibrium particle systems, statistical physics and computational sciences, including characterization of non-equilibrium phase transitions, fractal growth and self-organized criticality. Recently Vespignani’s research activity focuses on the interdisciplinary application of statistical and numerical simulation methods in the analysis of epidemic and spreading phenomena and the study of biological, social and technological networks. For several years he has been working on the characterization and modeling of the Internet, the WWW and large-scale information networks. He is now focusing his research activity in modeling the spatial spread of epidemics, including the realistic and data-driven computational modeling of emerging infectious diseases, the resilience of complex networks and the behavior of techno-social systems.
Vespignani has published 130+ peer reviewed papers in top rated scientific journals, including Nature, Science and PNAS that have accrued more than 9,000 citations according to the Thomson Reuters Web of Science database. He is author, together with Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, of the book Evolution and Structure of the Internet. Together with Alain Barrat and Marc Barthelemy he has published in 2008 the monograph Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks.
Awards and Honors
Memberships and Boards
Prof. Vespignani received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D., both in physics and both from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” in 1990 and 1993 respectively. He completed his postdoctoral research at Yale University and Leiden University. Prof. Vespignani worked at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (UNESCO) in Trieste and at the University of Paris-Sud in France as a member of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) before moving to Indiana University in 2004. Before joining Northeastern University Vespignani was J.H.Rudy Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University and serving as the Director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research and the Associate Director of the Pervasive Technology Institute. Vespignani is elected fellow of the American Physical Society, member of the Academy of Europe, and fellow of the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is serving in the board/leadership of a variety of professional association and journals and the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation.
Vespignani has worked in a number of areas of non-equilibrium particle systems, statistical physics and computational sciences, including characterization of non-equilibrium phase transitions, fractal growth and self-organized criticality. Recently Vespignani’s research activity focuses on the interdisciplinary application of statistical and numerical simulation methods in the analysis of epidemic and spreading phenomena and the study of biological, social and technological networks. For several years he has been working on the characterization and modeling of the Internet, the WWW and large-scale information networks. He is now focusing his research activity in modeling the spatial spread of epidemics, including the realistic and data-driven computational modeling of emerging infectious diseases, the resilience of complex networks and the behavior of techno-social systems.
Vespignani has published 130+ peer reviewed papers in top rated scientific journals, including Nature, Science and PNAS that have accrued more than 9,000 citations according to the Thomson Reuters Web of Science database. He is author, together with Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, of the book Evolution and Structure of the Internet. Together with Alain Barrat and Marc Barthelemy he has published in 2008 the monograph Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks.
Awards and Honors
- President elected of the Complex Systems Society (2012)
- Member of the Academy of Europe, section Physics and Engineering (2011).
- Sternberg Family Endowed Chair, Northeastern University (2011).
- Top cited article 2005-2010 award by the Theoretical Computer Science journal, Elsevier.
- Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (2008).
- Founding director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University (2008).
- James H. Rudy Endowed Chair, Indiana University (2008).
- Invited participant and tutorial presenter at the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) on complexity, November 13-15 2008, Irvine CA.
- Organizational Leadership Award, Global Information Technology Management Association, June 2007.
- FLAD visiting Professor and associated member, Computational Biology Collaboratorium, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC), Lisbon, Portugal.
- Plenary speaker STATPHYS 23, the 23rd International Conference on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), July 9-13, 2007.
- Invited lecturer National Academy of Engineering, 2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
- Marie Curie Fellow (1995-1997), the Human and Capital mobility program of the European Economic Community.
Memberships and Boards
- Editor in Chief EPJ Data Science, Springer (2012 - present).
- Editorial Board Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group (2011 - present ).
- Editorial Board PLOS One, Public Library of Science (2010 – present).
- Editorial Board of Mathematical Biosciences, Elsevier (2010- present).
- Editorial Board of Journal of Computational Sciences, Elsevier (2009 – present).
- Editorial Board of European Physical Journal B, Springer Verlag (2006 – 2011).
- Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Mechanics, IOP London, UK (2002 – present).
- Advisory Board, CABDyN center, Oxford University, UK (2009- present).
- Scientific director, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Italy (2008 -present).
- Information Science and Technology Advisory Group, Future Emerging Technologies, ICT directorate of the European Commission(2007- 2009).
- Scientific Advisory Board, Lisbon Epidemiology Consortium, Portugal (2007 – 2009).
- Steering Committee of the European Conference on Complex Systems (2006 -2009).
