Adilson E. Motter
Adilson E. Motter | |
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| Born | January 1, 1974 Brazil |
| Known for | Cascading failures in large-scale networks Synthetic rescues in metabolic networks Mechanical metamaterials with negative compressibility Doubly transient and relativistic chaos Converse symmetry breaking in network dynamics |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellow (2009) NSF CAREER Award (2011) APS Fellow (2013) Erdös-Rényi Prize (2013) Simons Foundation Fellow (2015) AAAS Fellow (2015) NetSci Fellow (2020) CSS Senior Scientific Award (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, applied math |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
Adilson E. Motter (born January 1, 1974, in Brazil) is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics at Northwestern University, where he has helped develop the concept of synthetic rescue in network biology as well as methods to control the nonlinear dynamics of complex networks. In joint work with Takashi Nishikawa, he discovered the phenomenon of converse symmetry breaking (also referred to as asymmetry-induced symmetry). Motter's research is focused on complex systems and nonlinear phenomena, primarily involving complex networks, systems biology, chaos and statistical physics.