Santo Fortunato

I am a Professor at Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering of Indiana University. Previously I was professor of complex systems at the Department of Computer Science of Aalto University, Finland. I got my PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics at the University of Bielefeld In Germany. I got my PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics at the University of Bielefeld In Germany. My focus areas are network science, especially community detection in graphs, computational social science and science of science. My research has been published in leading journals, including Nature, Science, Nature Physics, PNAS, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physics Reports and has collected over 40,000 citations (Google Scholar). My single-author article Community detection in graphs (Physics Reports 486, 75-174, 2010) is one of the best known and most cited papers in network science. I received the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics 2011, a prize given by the German Physical Society, for outstanding contributions to the physics of social systems. I am Fellow of the Network Science Society (2022) and of the American Physical Society (2022). I am the Founding Chair of the International Conference of Computational Social Science (IC2S2), which I first organized in Helsinki in June 2015. I was Chair of Networks 2021, the largest ever event on network science, a historical merger of the NetSci and Sunbelt conferences.