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Réka Albert

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

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.

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