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Ricard V. Solé

Ricard V. Solé

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Engineering and Technology
Spain
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
25254
World Ranking
4044
National Ranking
47

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Ricard V. Solé is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and has a significant body of research spanning multiple interdisciplinary fields. Their work largely focuses on understanding complex biological systems, evolutionary dynamics, and ecosystem resilience.

Their recent publications include:

  • Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity, 2020, Science
  • Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands, 2021, Functional Ecology
  • The Planetary Wellbeing Initiative: Pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education, 2021, Sustainability
  • Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome, 2020, Life
  • Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors including:

  • Victor Maull
  • Blai Vidiella
  • Jordi Pla
  • Núria Conde-Pueyo
  • Josep Sardanyés

Ricard V. Solé's research has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Preprints.org
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their main field of study is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within this broad area, notable subfields include Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Genetics, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The principal topics covered in their work focus on:

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
  • Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth

Ricard V. Solé has been recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea since 2017.

Best Publications

  • Ecological networks and their fragility

    José M. Montoya;Stuart L. Pimm;Ricard V. Solé

  • Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

    Miguel Berdugo;Miguel Berdugo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Santiago Soliveres;Rocío Hernández-Clemente

  • Complexity and fragility in ecological networks.

    Ricard V. Solé;José M. Montoya;José M. Montoya

  • Small world patterns in food webs.

    Jose M. Montoya;Jose M. Montoya;Ricard V. Solé;Ricard V. Solé

  • Signs Of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology

    Ricard Solé;Brian Goodwin

  • Language networks: Their structure, function, and evolution

    Ricard V. Solé;Bernat Corominas-Murtra;Sergi Valverde;Luc Steels

  • Habitat Fragmentation and Extinction Thresholds in Spatially Explicit Models

    Jordi Bascompte;Ricard V. Solé

  • Evolving protein interaction networks through gene duplication

    Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Eric Smith;Ricard V. Solé

  • A MODEL OF LARGE-SCALE PROTEOME EVOLUTION

    Ricard V. Solé;Ricard V. Solé;Ricard V. Solé;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Eric Smith;Thomas B. Kepler

  • TOPOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY OF THE EUROPEAN POWER GRID UNDER ERRORS AND ATTACKS

    Martí Rosas-Casals;Martí Rosas-Casals;Sergi Valverde;Ricard V. Solé;Ricard V. Solé

  • Distributed biological computation with multicellular engineered networks

    Sergi Regot;Javier Macia;Núria Conde;Kentaro Furukawa

  • Information Theory of Complex Networks: On Evolution and Architectural Constraints

    Ricard V. Sole;Sergi Valverde

  • Topological patterns in street networks of self-organized urban settlements

    J. Buhl;J. Gautrais;N. Reeves;R. V. Solé

  • Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems. (MPB-42)

    Ricard V. Solé;Jordi Bascompte

  • Data completeness—the Achilles heel of drug-target networks

    Jordi Mestres;Elisabet Gregori-Puigjané;Sergi Valverde;Sergi Valverde;Ricard V Solé;Ricard V Solé

  • Spatial patterns in ant colonies

    Guy Theraulaz;Eric Bonabeau;Stamatios C. Nicolis;Ricard V. Solé

  • Rethinking complexity: modelling spatiotemporal dynamics in ecology

    Jordl Bascompte;Ricard V. Solé

  • Two Regimes in the Frequency of Words and the Origins of Complex Lexicons: Zipf’s Law Revisited∗

    Ramon Ferrer i Cancho;Ricard V. Solé

  • Selection, tinkering, and emergence in complex networks

    Ricard V. Solé;Ramon Ferrer-Cancho;Jose M. Montoya;Sergi Valverde

  • Extinction and self-organized criticality in a model of large-scale evolution.

    Ricard V. Solé;Susanna C. Manrubia

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordi Bascompte
Jordi Bascompte University of Zurich
Santiago F. Elena
Santiago F. Elena Santa Fe Institute
José M. Montoya
José M. Montoya Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stuart A. Kauffman
Stuart A. Kauffman University of Vermont
Alan J. McKane
Alan J. McKane University of Manchester
Francesc Posas
Francesc Posas Pompeu Fabra University
Douglas H. Erwin
Douglas H. Erwin National Museum of Natural History
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol
Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez University of Barcelona
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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