Réka Albert
Réka Albert | |
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| Born | 2 March 1972 |
| Nationality | Romanian, Hungarian, American |
| Alma mater | Babeș-Bolyai University (B.S., M.S.), University of Notre Dame (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Barabási–Albert model, research on scale-free networks |
| Awards | Sloan 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 | |
| Fields | Network Science |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania 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.