Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani (born April 4, 1965) is an Italian-American physicist, best known for his work on
complex networks, and particularly for work on the applications of
network theory to the
mathematical modeling of infectious disease, applications of
computational epidemiology, and for studies of the topological properties of the
Internet. He is currently the Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences at
Northeastern University, where he is the director of the [https://www.networkscienceinstitute.org/ Network Science Institute].
Vespignani and his team have contributed mathematical and computational modeling analysis on several disease outbreaks, including
2009 H1N1 flu,
Ebola epidemic in West Africa,
Zika epidemic, and the
Covid-19 pandemic.
Vespignani is author, together with Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, of the book ''Evolution and Structure of the Internet''. Together with Alain Barrat and Marc Barthelemy he has published in 2008 the monograph ''Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks''.
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