Nationality Hungarian | Fields Physics, Biology Name Reka Albert | |
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Born 2 March 1972 (age 52) ( 1972-03-02 ) Known for Barabasi–Albert model,research on scale-free networks | ||
Reka Albert - Network Structure and Logic Determines the Dynamic Repertoire of Biological Networks
Réka Albert (born 2 March 1972) is a Romanian-born Hungarian scientist. She is professor of physics and adjunct professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University and is noted for the Barabási–Albert model and research into scale-free networks and Boolean modeling of biological systems.
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- Reka Albert Network Structure and Logic Determines the Dynamic Repertoire of Biological Networks
- Reka Albert Network based dynamic modeling of biological systems
- Education
- Work
- Awards
- Selected publications
- References
Reka Albert - Network-based dynamic modeling of biological systems
Education
Albert obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1995 and 1996, respectively. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame in 2001.
Work
Albert is co-creator, together with Albert-László Barabási, of the Barabási–Albert algorithm for generating scale-free random graphs via preferential attachment (see Barabási–Albert model).
Her work extends to networks in a very general sense, involving for instance investigations on the error tolerance of the world-wide web and on the vulnerability of the North American power grid.
Her current research focuses on dynamic modeling of biological networks and systems biology.
Awards
Albert was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow in 2004, was awarded an NSF CAREER Award in 2007 and received the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award in 2011.