Prof. Plamen Ivanov was invited as the Associated Editor for New Journal of Physics

Prof. Plamen Ch. Ivanov becomes the Associate Editor of the New Journal of Physics focus issue on Network Physiology and Network Medicine.

The scope of the issue encompasses both network physiology and network medicine, where new concepts and approaches derived from recent advances in the theory of Complex Networks are applied to provide insights into physiological structure and function in health and disease; from the genetic and sub-cellular level to inter-cellular interactions and communications across integrated organ systems. Of particular interest will be new and little-explored areas of network science including the following.

• Studies on structural and dynamical aspects of physiological systems that transcend time and space scales.

• Networks comprised of diverse dynamical systems.

• The role of time-dependent network interactions for emergent transitions in network topology and function.

• Structure-function dependence.

• Manipulation, control and global dynamics of networks.

• Information flow on network topology.

• Cascades of failure across systems.

• Networks of physiological networks.

Figure. The human organism is an integrated network where complex physiologic systems, each with their own regulatory mechanisms, continuously interact, and where the failure of one system can trigger a breakdown of the entire network. A new field, network physiology, is needed to probe the network of interactions among diverse physiological systems.

(Image copyright: Iris W Bartisch.)