Réka Albert

Who is this?

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.

Career

1. 1972
   Born
2. 2011
   Won Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
3. 2019
   Won Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
4. Member of American Physical Society
5. Member of Network Science Society
6. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Reghin
• •Citizenship: Romania, United States
• •Known as: physicist, biologist