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Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
69
Citations
46269
World Ranking
1097
National Ranking
27

Overview

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions in the subfields of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computer Networks and Communications, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Social Media and Politics, Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation, and Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Romualdo Pastor-Satorras include:

  • Selective social interactions and speed-induced leadership in schooling fish, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Modeling Explosive Opinion Depolarization in Interdependent Topics, 2023, Physical Review Letters
  • Scale-free behavioral cascades and effective leadership in schooling fish, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Influential spreaders for recurrent epidemics on networks, 2020, Physical Review Research
  • Data-driven estimate of SARS-CoV-2 herd immunity threshold in populations with individual contact pattern variations, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

They have frequently published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review Research, Physical review. E, Scientific Reports, and Communications Physics.

Among their frequent collaborators are M. Carmen Miguel, Andreu Puy, Jaume Ojer, Michele Starnini, and Elisabet Gimeno.

Best Publications

  • Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks

    Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • The architecture of complex weighted networks

    Alain Barrat;Marc Barthelemy;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Epidemic processes in complex networks

    Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Claudio Castellano;Piet Van Mieghem;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Epidemic dynamics and endemic states in complex networks

    Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach

    Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Dynamical and correlation properties of the Internet

    Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alexei Vázquez;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Immunization of complex networks

    Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Epidemic outbreaks in complex heterogeneous networks

    Yamir Moreno;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Reaction–diffusion processes and metapopulation models in heterogeneous networks

    Vittoria Colizza;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Models of social networks based on social distance attachment

    Marián Boguñá;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Albert Díaz-Guilera;Alex Arenas

  • Epidemic dynamics in finite size scale-free networks

    Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Large-scale topological and dynamical properties of the Internet

    Alexei Vázquez;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Velocity and Hierarchical Spread of Epidemic Outbreaks in Scale-Free Networks

    Marc Barthélemy;Alain Barrat;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Generation of uncorrelated random scale-free networks

    Michele Catanzaro;Marián Boguñá;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

  • Thresholds for epidemic spreading in networks.

    Claudio Castellano;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

  • Activity driven modeling of time varying networks

    Nicola Perra;Bruno Goncalves;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Absence of epidemic threshold in scale-free networks with degree correlations.

    Marián Boguñá;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Epidemic spreading in correlated complex networks.

    Marián Boguñá;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

  • Statistical mechanics of complex networks

    Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Miguel Rubi;Albert Diaz-Guilera

  • Dynamical patterns of epidemic outbreaks in complex heterogeneous networks.

    Marc Barthélemy;Alain Barrat;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani;Alessandro Vespignani

  • Reaction-diffusion processes and meta-population models in heterogeneous networks

    Vittoria Colizza;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras;Alessandro Vespignani

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
Andrea Baronchelli
Andrea Baronchelli City, University of London
Alain Barrat
Alain Barrat Centre de Physique Théorique
Marián Boguñá
Marián Boguñá University of Barcelona
Ricard V. Solé
Ricard V. Solé Pompeu Fabra University
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Yamir Moreno
Yamir Moreno University of Zaragoza
Marc Barthelemy
Marc Barthelemy L'Institut de physique théorique
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick

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