Réka Albert

Réka Albert
Born (1972-03-02) 2 March 1972
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) is a Romanian-Hungarian scientist. She is a distinguished 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. She was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.