Adilson Motter

Adilson E. Motter is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, USA. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty in March 2006, he held positions as Guest Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and as Director's Funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Awards received by Prof. Motter include the Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science, and the Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is also a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute and serves in the Editorial Board of Physical Review X, among other journals. He is a former Chair of the APS Topical Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics (GSNP) and is the current Vice President and Secretary of the Network Science Society. Prof. Motter's research is focused on the dynamical behavior of complex systems and networks and is inherently interdisciplinary, cutting across physics, mathematics, engineering, and life sciences.