Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Albert-László Barabási is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist and network scientist renowned for discovering scale-free networks and proposing the Barabási–Albert model in 1999. He is a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research, and is recognized as a founder of network medicine. Barabási has also authored several acclaimed popular science books, including Linked, Bursts, and The Formula.