Réka Albert

Réka Albert
Born (1972-03-02) 2 March 1972 (age 52)
Reghin, Romania
NationalityRomanian, Hungarian, American
Alma materBabeș-Bolyai University (B.S., M.S.),
University of Notre Dame (Ph.D.)
Known forBarabási–Albert model,
research on scale-free networks
AwardsSloan Research Fellow (2004)
NSF CAREER Award (2007)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2010)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award (2011)
External member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2016)
Fellow of the Network Science Society (2018)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsNetwork Science
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University

Réka Albert (born 2 March 1972[1]) is a Romanian-Hungarian scientist. She is a distinguished professor of physics and adjunct professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University[2][3] and is noted for the Barabási–Albert model and research into scale-free networks and Boolean modeling of biological systems.

Education

Albert was born in Reghin, a city in Mureș County, located in the historical region of Transylvania, in the north-central part of Romania. She 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.[3]

Work

Albert is co-creator, together with Albert-László Barabási, of the Barabási–Albert model 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 and attack vulnerability of complex networks[4] and its applications to the vulnerability of the North American power grid.[5][6]

Her current research focuses on dynamic modeling of biological networks and systems biology.

Awards

Albert was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow in 2004 and was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2007. She was named Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010.[7] One year later she received the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award.[2][8] In 2016 she was inducted as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[9] She was elected Fellow of the Network Science Society in 2018[10] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019.[11]

Selected publications

  • Albert R., Barabási A.-L.: Statistical mechanics of complex networks, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 74, Nr. 1, pp. 47–97, 2002, doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.74.47, arXiv:cond-mat/0106096v1 (submitted 6 June 2001)
  • Jeong H., Tombor B., Albert R., Oltvai Z.N., Barabási A.-L.: The large-scale organization of metabolic networks, Nature 407, pp. 651–654, 2000, doi:10.1038/35036627 arXiv:cond-mat/0010278 (submitted 19 October 2000)
  • Albert R., Jeong H., Barabási A.-L.: Error and attack tolerance of complex networks, Nature 406, pp. 378–382, 2000, doi:10.1038/35019019, arXiv:cond-mat/0008064v1 (submitted 3 August 2000)
  • Barabási A.-L., Albert R.: Emergence of scaling in random networks, Science, Vol. 286, Nr. 5439, pp. 509–12, 15 October 1999, doi:10.1126/science.286.5439.509, arXiv:cond-mat/9910332v1 (submitted 21 October 1999)

References

  1. ^ "Albert Réka". Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. ^ a b "Réka Albert – Penn State Physics faculty page". Archived from the original on 2014-10-20. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Réka Albert – Penn State Biology faculty page". Eberly College of Science. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
  4. ^ Barabási, Albert-László; Albert, Réka; Jeong, Hawoong (June 2000). "Scale-free characteristics of random networks: the topology of the world-wide web". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 281 (1–4): 69–77. Bibcode:2000PhyA..281...69B. doi:10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00018-2.
  5. ^ Ness, Larry (2006). Securing utility and energy infrastructures. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. p. 31. ISBN 0-471-70525-X. OCLC 85820876.
  6. ^ Albert, Réka; Albert, István; Nakarado, Gary L. (2004-02-26). "Structural vulnerability of the North American power grid". Physical Review E. 69 (2): 025103. arXiv:cond-mat/0401084v1. Bibcode:2004PhRvE..69b5103A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.69.025103. ISSN 1539-3755. PMID 14995510. S2CID 18811015.
  7. ^ "Reka Albert Named a Fellow of the American Physical Society". science.psu.edu. February 16, 2010. Archived from the original on July 12, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  8. ^ "2011 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Köztestületi tagok". mta.hu.
  10. ^ "NetSci – The Network Science Society". netscisociety.net.
  11. ^ "2019 Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Archived from the original on November 28, 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-20.