Arenas Moreno, Àlex

Arenas Moreno, Àlex

Alex Arenas is Full Professor at the Departament d'Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques (DEIM) of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He obtained his PhD in Physics in 1996. In 1995, he got a tenure position at DEIM, and in 1997 he became associate professor at the same department. In 2000, he was visiting scholar at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. (LBL) in the Applied Mathematics group of Prof. Alexandre Chorin (University of California, Berkeley). After this visit, he started a collaboration with Berkeley, and in 2007 he became visiting researcher of LBL. Arenas has written more than 200 interdisciplinary publications in major peer reviewed including Nature, PNAS, Physics Reports and Physical Review Letters, which have received more than 25000 citations. He is one of the few Europeans serving as Associate Editors of the most important publication in physics worldwide, the American Physical Society journal Physical Review. He is in charge of the Interdisciplinary Physics section of Physical Review E.

Project: Higher-order dynamical processes on networks (reference: 2020MFP-COFUND-11)

Project: Modeling of the interaction between epidemic spreading and social dynamics (reference: 2021MFP-COFUND-24)