This is a list of notable individuals who research complex networks, including

social network A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of Dyad (sociology), dyadic ties, and other Social relation, social interactions between actors. The social network per ...

biological network A biological network is a method of representing systems as complex sets of binary interactions or relations between various biological entities. In general, networks or graphs are used to capture relationships between entities or objects. A typ ...

s, and

semantic network A semantic network, or frame network is a knowledge base that represents semantic relations between concepts in a network. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed or undirected graph consisting of vertices, ...

s, among others. Individuals are categorized based on their background and training, or their area of focus.

Social and behavioral sciences

Peter Bearman Peter Shawn Bearman (born 1956) is an American sociologist, notable for his contributions to the fields of adolescent health, research design, structural analysis, textual analysis, oral history and social networks. He is the Jonathan R. Cole Pr ...

* Ulrik Brandes * Ronald S. Burt * Noshir Contractor * James Fowler *

Mark Granovetter Mark Sanford Granovetter (; born October 20, 1943) is an American sociologist and professor at Stanford University. He is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of infor ...

* Dirk Helbing * Matthew O. Jackson *

Helen Hall Jennings Helen Hall Jennings (September 20, 1905 – October 4, 1966) was an American social psychologist and trailblazer in the field of social networks in the early 20th century. She developed quantitative research methods used to study sociometry, a quan ...

* Frigyes Karinthy * David Lazer *

Zeev Maoz Ze'ev Maoz (born 28 June 1951) is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Correlates of War Project at the University of California, Davis, as well as Distinguished Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. He is the Pr ...

* John Levi Martin * James D. Montgomery * Anna Nagurney * Kim Rossmo * Tom Snijders * Duncan Watts *

Barry Wellman Barry Wellman (30 September 1942 – 9 July 2024) was an American-Canadian sociologist and was the co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network. His areas of research were community sociology, the Internet, human–computer i ...

* Douglas R. White *

Harrison White Harrison Colyar White (March 21, 1930 – May 18, 2024) was an American sociologist who was the Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. White played an influential role in the “Harvard Revolution” in social networks and the N ...

Computer and information sciences

Lada Adamic Lada Adamic is an American network scientist, who researches information dynamics in networks. She studies how network structure influences the flow of information, how information influences the evolution of networks, and crowdsourced knowledge ...

* Vladimir Batagelj * Randy Bush * Aaron Clauset * Anuška Ferligoj * Jon Kleinberg * Jure Leskovec * Filippo Menczer * Cristopher Moore *

Aleš Žiberna Aleš Žiberna is a Slovenian people, Slovene statistician, whose specialty is Social network analysis, network analysis. His specific research interests include blockmodeling, multivariate analysis and computer intensive methods (e.g., computer ...

Physics

Réka Albert 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 sc ...

* Luís A. N. Amaral *

Albert-László Barabási Albert-László Barabási (born March 30, 1967) is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist, renowned for his pioneering discoveries in network science and network medicine. He is a distinguished university professor and Robert Gray Profe ...

* Kevin E. Bassler * Dirk Brockmann * Kim Christensen * Raissa D'Souza * Ernesto Estrada *

Michelle Girvan Michelle Girvan (born 1977) is an American physicist and network science, network scientist whose research combines methods from dynamical systems, graph theory, and statistical mechanics and applies them to problems including epidemiology, gene r ...

* Shlomo Havlin * César Hidalgo * Vito Latora * José Fernando Ferreira Mendes * Yamir Moreno * Adilson E. Motter *

Mark Newman Mark Newman is a British physicist and Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, as well as an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. He is known for his fundamental contributions to ...

* H. Eugene Stanley * Alessandro Vespignani * Lenka Zdeborová

Biology

* Uri Alon * Danielle Bassett * Caroline Buckee *

Paulien Hogeweg Paulien Hogeweg (born 1943) is a Dutch theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher studying biological systems as dynamic information processing systems at many interconnected levels. In 1970, together with Ben Hesper, she defined the t ...

* Trey Ideker * Jukka-Pekka Onnela * Bernhard Palsson * John Quackenbush * Olaf Sporns

Mathematics

Vincent Blondel Vincent Daniel Blondel (born 28 April 1965) is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and former rector of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Blondel's rese ...

Béla Bollobás Béla Bollobás FRS (born 3 August 1943) is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation. He was strongly influenced by Paul E ...

* Chris Danforth * Peter Sheridan Dodds * Pául Erdős *

Frank Harary Frank Harary (March 11, 1921 – January 4, 2005) was an American mathematician, who specialized in graph theory. He was widely recognized as one of the "fathers" of modern graph theory. Harary was a master of clear exposition and, together with ...

László Lovász László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He ...

Alfréd Rényi Alfréd Rényi (20 March 1921 – 1 February 1970) was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in probability theory, though he also made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory. Life Rényi was born in Budapest to A ...

Steven Strogatz Steven Henry Strogatz (; born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and author, and the Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his wor ...

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