ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

• 08/2015 - present, Whitmore-Williams Assistant Professor
  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  The College of Wooster
  Wooster, OH.
  

• 07/2007 - 07/2015, Instructor of Medicine,
  Center for Vascular Biology Research
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Department of Medicine
  Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  

EDUCATION

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 11/2006 - 07/2007
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  Supervisor: William C. Aird.

• Director Funded Postdoctoral Fellow, 10/2004 - 10/2006
  Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.
  Supervisor: Zoltán N. Toroczkai.

• Ph.D. in Physics, 08/2000 - 09/2004
  University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
  Thesis advisor: Albert-László Barabási, Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics.
  Research: Evolution, Hierarchy and Modular Organization in Complex Networks
  Defence: September 2004.

• M.S. in Physics, 10/1999 - 06/2000
  Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RO.
  Dissertation advisor: Prof. Zoltán Néda.
  Research: Evolution of the social network of scientific collaborations; Spatial stochastic resonance in one-dimensional Ising systems.
  Defence: June 2000.

• B.S. in Physics with Minor in Physics Education, 10/1995 - 07/1999
  Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RO.
  Dissertation advisor: Prof. Zoltán Néda.
  Research: Synchronization and physics of rhythmic applause.
  Defence: July 1999.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 01/2012 - 06/2012, Teaching faculty,
  Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
  Class: Interactive Learning Seminar for Physics 101 (undergraduate)
  

• 03/2010 - 06/2010, Course leader and teaching faculty,
  Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  Class: The complexity of cellular networks (for postdocs and faculty)
  

• 10/1999 - 12/2000, Graduate Teaching Assistant,
  Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, RO.
  Class: Problem-solving tutorial in Quantum Mechanics I, physics majors.
  Teaching faculty: Zoltán Gábos.

• 10/1998 - 02/1999, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant,
  Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, RO.
  Class: Problem-solving tutorial in Quantum Mechanics I, physics majors.
  Teaching faculty: Zoltán Néda.

• 02/1998 - 06/1998, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant,
  Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, RO.
  Class: Problem-solving tutorial in Quantum Mechanics, mathematics-physics double majors.
  Teaching faculty: Zoltán Néda.

MENTORING EXPERIENCE

• 2010 - present, Mentor for the NetSci High Program
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
  Program: Educational outreach program to introduce the science of networks to high school students.
  
  NetSci High 2012
  • Team of 4 high school students, Boston University Academy
  • Objective: model the influence of external inputs on the energy landscape of small regulatory networks (weekly meetings).
  
  NetSci High 2011 (Pilot)
  • One high school student (ML Cerulli), Winsor High School
  • Objective: map the phenotypic heterogeneity of endothelial cells in distinct segments of the kidney vasculature (weekly meetings).

• 2012 - present, Mentor for the Research Science Institute (RSI)
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
  Program: Summer science and engineering program to combine theory course work and research (Center for Excellence in Education, hosted by MIT).
  

  RSI 2012

  • One high school student, "Dr. Petar Beron" High School of Mathematics
  • Objective: develop energy landscape visualization for Boolean regulatory network state transition graphs (daily meetings).

• 2011 - present, Mentor for the Center for Vascular Biology Summer Student Research Program
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
  Program: enable advanced high school students and college undergraduates to conduct supervised research with a HMS faculty mentor.
  

  CVBR Summer Student Research Program 2012

  • One high school student, Winsor High School (volunteer)
  • Objective: build an agent-based model of spatial patterns in heterogeneous vWF expression, observed in the mouse aorta (daily meetings).

  CVBR Summer Student Research Program 2011

  • One undergraduate student, University of Massachusetts (paid)
  • Objective: develop a sampling algorithm of the state space of large Boo- lean regulatory networks (1-2 meetings/week).

• 6/2011 - 6/2012, Mentor for High school Research Volunteer
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
  
  • One high school student, Winsor High School (volunteer)
  • Objective: assemble a Boolean network model of angiogenic pattern formation (weekly meetings for 3 semesters; daily meetings during 1 month of her full-time Independent Learning Experience internship).

• 2006 - 2006, Host for Center for Nonlinear Studies Visiting Students
  Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  
  • One undergraduate student, Babes-Bolyai University (paid)
  • One graduate student, University of Notre Dame (paid)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 2012, Best Participation Award at Data and Journal Club, Center for Vascular Biology Reseach, Boston, MA
  
• 2005, Alumni Association Research Award, University of Notre Dame Graduate School, Notre Dame, IN.
  Advisor: Albert-László Barabási.
• 2004, Director Funded Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (two years), Los Alamos, NM.
• 2000, Fisher Fellowship for graduate studies in Physics at the University of Notre Dame (two years), Notre Dame, IN.
  Advisor: Albert-László Barabási.
• 2000, Research scholarship from the University of Notre Dame (two months), at the Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
  Advisor: Albert-László Barabási.
• 1999, SOCRATES-ERASMUS scholarship for 3 months to study and engage in research at the INPG, ENSEEG-LTPCM, Grenoble, France.
  Advisor: Yves Brechet.
• 1998, Research scholarship at the KFKI (two months), RMKI-ELFO, Budapest, Hungary.
  Advisor: Tamás Bíró.
• 1999, Performance research scholarship of the Babes Bolyai University (one year).
• 1998, Scientific Conference for Transylvanian Students, Cluj Napoca, 1st prize.
• 1996, Ortvay Rudolf Problem Solving Competition, Hungary, 2nd prize.
• 1995, Selection for the Large Olympic Team (8th) at the National Physics High-school Olympiad.

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

• Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Systems Biology (job interview talk), December 21, 2005, Princeton, NJ.
  Invited Speaker: Networks in Protein Folding.
• Harvard Medical School, Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine (job interview talk), November 22, 2005, Boston, MA.
  Invited Speaker: Networks in Protein Folding.
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies, September 1, 2005, Los Alamos, NM.
  Seminar: Protein folding networks.
• News, Expectations and Trends in Statistical Physics, 3rd Next Sigma-Phy International Conference, August 13 - 18, 2005, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece.
  Invited speaker: Hierarchical Modularity in Complex Networks.
• Collectives formation and specialization in biological and social systems, April 20- 22, 2005, Santa Fe, NM.
• School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks, May 16 - 28, 2005, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
  
• Los Alamos National Laboratory - Arizona Days 2005, January 28 - 29, 2005, Tucson, AZ.
  Invited speaker: Hierarchical Modularity in Metabolic Networks.
• Brookhaven National Laboratory, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar (Job interview talk), February 5, 2005, Upton, NY.
  Invited speaker: Hierarchical Modularity in Complex Networks.
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies Seminar (Job interview talk), November 8, 2004, Los Alamos, NM.
  Invited speaker: Hierarchical Modularity in Complex Networks.
• 23rd Annual Conference on Networks: Structure, Dynamics and Function, May 12 - 16, 2003, Santa Fe, NM.
  Poster: Hierarchical Organization of Complex Networks.
• Indiana Biocomplexity Symposium, April 22 - 23, 2003, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
  Poster: Hierarchical Modularity of Metabolic Networks.
• Genomic Approaches to Transcriptional Regulation, March 6 - 9, 2003, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
• 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, August 12 - 16, 2002, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
• Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 18 - 22, 2002, Indianapolis, IN.
  Presentation: Evolution of the social network of scientific collaborations.
• International Workshop on Scaling and Phase Transitions in Complex Networks, February 18 - 22, 2002, Pohang, Korea.
• 2nd Workshop on Computation of Biochemical Pathways and Genetic Networks, June 21 - 22, 2001, Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, Germany.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Referee for Physical Review E, European Physical Journal B, Bioinformatics, Journal of Biological Systems, Biophysical Journal, FEBS Letters.
• Editor for Zoltán Gábos, Statisztikus fizika, Erdélyi Múzeum Egyesület, Cluj Napoca, 1999.
• Echoes of my research in the media (The Rhythmic Applause)
  • Physical Review Focus: Applause Physics, 2000 (http://focus.aps.org/story/v5/st27).
  • ABC News: Great Moments in Science - Paws for Applause, 2003 (http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s114463.htm).
  • Discovery.com News: Synchronized Clapping a Primal Desire? 2000.
  • FoxNews: Roar of the crowd shows social organization, 2000.
  • Complexity Digest: The Sound Of Many Hands Clapping, 2000 (http://comdig2.de/test/index.php?makeframe=topic.php%3Fid_article%3D404).
  • South Bend Tribune: Study: U.S. out of sync with European applause, 2000.
• Summer Student Advisor of Andrea Asztalos (graduate student at University of Notre Dame, IN), July - August, 2005, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.
  Research topic: Modeling information processing in gene regulatory networks.
  

REFERENCES

Zoltán Toroczkai Acting Deputy Director Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for Nonlinear Studies TA-3, Bldg. 1690, Rm. 101, Mail Stop B258 Los Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505) 667-3218 Fax: (505) 665-2659 E-mail: toro@lanl.gov	Albert-László Barabási Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics University of Notre Dame Department of Physics 225 Nieuwland Science Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: (574) 631-5767 Fax: (574) 631-5952 E-mail: alb@nd.edu
Zoltán Néda Associate Professor Babes-Bolyai University Department of Theoretical Physics Str. Kogalniceanu, Nr. 1 RO-3400, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Phone: (+40)-745-247-977 Fax: (+40)-264-191-906 E-mail: zneda@phys.ubbcluj.ro	Eivind Almaas Research Scientist Microbial Systems Division, Biosciences Directorate Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Avenue, P.O. Box 808, L-441 Livermore, CA 94551-0808 Phone: (925) 424-4942 Fax: (925) 422-2282 E-mail: almaas@llnl.gov
Zoltán Oltvai Associate Professor, Assistant Director of the Division of Molecular Diagnostics University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Department of Pathology S-417 BST, 200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh, PA 15261 Phone: (412) 648-1038 Fax: (412) 648-1916 E-mail: oltvai@pitt.edu