Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo

physicist

Albert-László Barabási, Emil T. Hofman professor of physics of the University of Notre Dame (USA) was born in Transylvania, and later he studied in Bucarest and Budapest. He obtained his doctoral degree at Boston University in 1994. After spending a year in the T. J. Watson institute of research of IBM, he was hired by the University of Notre Dame in 1995. His research projects have led to the discovery and conceptualisation of scale-independent networks; by which the structure of networks in both nature and technology can be effectively described, from the Web to the living cell. The efforts of his present research group are focused on describing the structure of the Internet and of complex metabolic systems with the theories they formulate.
He is a member of the American Society of Physicists and an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His book, The New Science of Networks (Perseus, 2002), has been published in ten different languages.

Networked - The Amazing World of Networks, From Cells to the Internet