Alessandro Vespignani
Professor of Informatics and Computing
- Phone
- (812) 856-1829
- Office
- Informatics East, Room 314
- Web Site
- alexves.googlepages.com
Other Titles
- Adjunct Professor of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences; Adjunct Professor of Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences; Affiliated Researcher, Biocomplexity Institute; Core faculty, Cognitive Science Program
Research Interests
Complex networks; epidemic modeling; Internet structure; reaction-diffusion systems; non-equilibrium statistical physics; self-organization;phase transitions; critical phenomena.
For a list of publications, vitae, press releases and a detailed description of research activities see the homepage: http://alexves.googlepages.com/
Biography
Alessandro Vespignani is currently James H. Rudy Professor of Informatics and Computing and adjunct professor of Physics and Statistics at Indiana University where he is also the director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS) and associate director of the Pervasive Technology Institute. He has obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Rome La Sapienza. After holding research positions at Yale University and Leiden University, he has been a member of the condensed matter research group at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (UNESCO) in Trieste. Before joining Indiana University Vespignani has been a faculty of the Laboratoire de Physique Theorique at the University of Paris-Sud working for the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) of which he is still member at large. Vespignani is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society and is serving in the board/leadership of a variety of professional association and journals and the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation in Turin, Italy.
He has authored more than 100 scientific papers on the properties and characterization of non-equilibrium phenomena, critical phase transitions and complex systems. Recently Vespignani’s research activity is focused on the interdisciplinary application of statistical physics and numerical simulation methods in the analysis of epidemic and spreading phenomena and the study of biological, social and technological networks. He was the advisor of several graduate and undergraduate theses and organizer of international conferences and schools. Vespignani is author of two monographic volumes: Evolution and structure of the Internet: a statistical physics approach, together with Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, published by Cambridge University Press (2004, paperback reprint 2007) and translated and published in France by Belin Editeur (2004); Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks, with A. Barrat and M. Barthelemy, published by Cambridge University Press (2008). He was among the five scientists nominated for the Wired Magazine Rave Award in science for 2004.
