Réka Albert
Romanian-Hungarian scientist
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Education
Albert was born in Reghin, a city in Mureș County, located in the historical region of Transylvania, in the north-central part of Romania. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1995 and 1996, respectively. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame in 2001.
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Work
Albert is co-creator, together with Albert-László Barabási, of the Barabási–Albert model for generating scale-free random graphs via preferential attachment (see Barabási–Albert model).
Her work extends to networks in a very general sense, involving for instance investigations on the error tolerance and attack vulnerability of complex networks and its applications to the vulnerability of the North American power grid.
Her current research focuses on dynamic modeling of biological networks and systems biology.
Awards
Albert was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow in 2004 and was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2007. She was named Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010. One year later she received the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award. In 2016 she was inducted as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She was elected Fellow of the Network Science Society in 2018 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019.