Indiana University Bloomington

School of Informatics and Computing

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Alessandro Vespignani

Alessandro Vespignani

Professor of Informatics

E-mail
Phone
(812) 856-1829
Office
Informatics East, Room 314
Web Site
alexves.googlepages.com

Other Titles

  • Professor of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Adjunct Professor of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Adjunct Professor of Statistics
  • Affiliated Researcher, Biocomplexity Institute

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 obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Rome La Sapienza. After holding research positions at Yale University and Leiden University, he has joined the condensed matter research group at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (UNESCO) in Trieste where he has ran research and teaching activities for more than five years. Vespignani has then entered the French National Council for Scientific Research, carrying on his academic activities at the Laboratoire de Physique Theorique of the University of Paris-Sud.

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, together with R. Pastor-Satorras, of the book Evolution and Structure of the Internet, published by Cambridge University Press. He was among the five scientists nominated for the Wired Magazine Rave Award in science for 2004.