CURRICULUM VITAE

Place and Date of birth:

Karcfalva, 30 March 1967
 

Citizenship:

Hungarian, US Permanent Resident
 

Education:

• 1986-1989, University of Bucharest, major in physics and engineering
• M.Sc., 1991, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, in physics; advisor T. Vicsek
• Ph.D., 1994, Boston University, in physics; advisor H.E. Stanley
 


Employment and Teaching Experience:

• 1989-91, Research Institute for Technical Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Research Assistant
• 1991-92, Boston University, Teaching Assistant
• 1992-94, Boston University, Research Assistant
• 1994-95, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Physical Sciences Department, Postdoctoral Associate
• 1995-99, University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor
• 2000, Institute of Advanced Studies, Collegium Budapest, Senior Fellow
• 1999-2000, University of Notre Dame, Associate Professor
• 2000-present, University of Notre Dame, Emil T. Hofman Professor
• 2004-present, Center for Complex Networks Research, University of Notre Dame, Director
• 2005-present, University of Notre Dame, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
• 2005-2006, Harvard University, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Visiting Professor
  

Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards:

• 1990-91 Republican Fellowship of the Republic of Hungary
• 1990-91 Fellowship of Cel Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
• 1991 TEMPUS Fellowship, European Community, University of Köln
• 1991 Soros Foundation Publication and Mobility Grant
• 1997 NSF CAREER Award
• 1998 ONR Young Investigator Award
• 1999 Distinguished Scholar Lecturer, College of Science, University of Notre Dame
• 2000 Keynote Speaker, Collocation Summit, Washington D.C.
• 2001 Nivo Prize for the best physics article, Fizikai Szemle ( Hungary)
• 2002 Presidential Award, University of Notre Dame
• 2002 Editorial Board, ComPlexUs and Fractals
• 2002 ISI: Fast Breaking Paper in Physics (Reviews of Modern Physics 76, 69 (2002))
• 2002 ISI: Highly Cited (Nature 407, 651 (2000))
• 2002 Keynote Speaker, Biotechnology Ventures, San Francisco
• 2003 Keynote Speaker, 4 TH Georgia Tech International Conference in Bioinformatics, Atlanta
• 2003 Editorial Board of Internet Mathematics
• 2003 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 2004 Barton Childs Lecture, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
• 2004 Keynote Speaker, BioADIT 2004, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2004 Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2005 FEBS Anniversary Prize for Systems Biology
• 2006 John Von Neumann Medal
 

 

Synergistic Activities:

• Editorial Board Member of Internet Mathematics, ComPlexUs and Fractals
• Member of the Executive Committee, Biocomplexity Center, Notre Dame
• Co-organizer, GSNP Focus Session on Networks, APS March Meeting, Montreal, 2004.
• Member at large, Group on Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics, APS.
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Network Science, 2004-2005.
• Bio-Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (BIOADIT2), Member of the Steering
  Committee, Osaka, Japan, January 26-27, 2006.

 

Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor:

• Reka Albert, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
• Ginestra Bianconi, Ph.D., The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy
• Istvan Daruka , Ph.D., University of Debrecen, Hungary
• Choongseop Lee, Ph.D., University of Houston
• Makim Makeev, Ph.D., University of Southern California
• Ravasz Erzsébet, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Soon-Hyung Yook, Ph.D., Bremen University, Germany
• Marcio Argollo de Menezes, Ph.D., Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
• Hawoong Jeong, Ph.D., Seoul National University, Korea
• Stefan Wuchty, Ph.D., University of Vienna, Austria
• Eivind Almaas, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Zoltan Deszo, Ph.D., Genego, Inc., St. Joseph, MI

Total number of graduate students and postdocs advised: 12

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