Réka Albert
| Réka Albert | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 March 1972 |
| Citizenship | Romanian |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Fields | Physics, Biology |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University |
| Alma mater |
Babes-Bolyai University (B.A., M.A.), University of Notre Dame (Ph.D.) |
| Known for |
Barabási–Albert model, research on scale-free networks |
| Notable awards | 2004 Sloan Research Fellow, 2007 NSF CAREER award |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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