Alessandro Flammini
 
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Bio

Short Bio

I joined the School of Informatics of Indiana University in Bloomington as an Assistant Professor in the August of 2004, with a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from the International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS–Trieste, Italy), few years experience as a PostDoc (at the Ralph M. Parson Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Cavendish Lab of the University of Cambridge, UK), and having held a joint research position at ISAS and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. At the time of my arrival I was also granted the status of adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics. Within the School I am a  member of the Complex Systems Group (CX), and, as of January 2009, of the newly established Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS).

Collaborations

There is a number of people interested in complex networks at IU. An occasion to meet them is at Networks and Complex System Talk series, organized by Katy Borner. During these years at IU at the opportunity to interact with many. My research has greatly benefited from collaborations with colleagues (F. Menczer and A. Vespignani, Informatics), long term visiting scientists (M. Barthelemy, CEA, Paris) and the numerous postdocs (B. Goncalves) and ex-postdocs (V. Colizza, S. Fortunato, , M. A. Serrano) that have been working or currently work in the Complex System Group.

Visiting

I also enjoyed my frequent summer visits to the Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI, Turin, Italy), and to the Lab. of Statistical Biophysics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. I am looking forward to my forthcoming visit to the Dept. of Quimica Fisica of the University of Barcelona, and to the EHESS, Paris, France.

Funding

The School of Informatics has a mission of promoting interdisciplinary research. This has facilitated my exploring the contact points between my research interests and that of other colleagues (A. Vespignani and L. Yaeger, (Informatics); R. Goldstone P. Todd, and O. Sporns (Cognitive Science); J. Glazier and J. Beggs, (Physics); F. Menczer and J. Mills, (Computer Science), leading to the submission of joint research proposals.

Teaching

At IU I taught courses in Complex Systems, both at graduate (I601) and undergraduate (I400) level, an introductory course in logic (I201), and in probability and statistics (I502). I supervised a number of independent studies and research rotations about ecological networks, protein interaction networks, processes on complex networks. I also had the chance to collaborate in research work with few gifted students (M. Conover, M. Meiss, J. Ratkiewicz). See here for future/present/recent courses I am teaching.