Lazaros Gallos
Dr. Gallos is an Associate Director at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), and a Research Professor at Rutgers University. At DIMACS, he is the current Director of the long-running summer REU program – Research Experiences for Undergraduates – on Computer Science and Mathematics. He received his PhD at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in Computational Physics. His research interests cover a broad range of problems in complex systems and interdisciplinary applications. His main contributions are on complex network dynamics, epidemics, and information spreading with emphasis on behavior in social networks. He has established many inter-disciplinary collaborations with colleagues from mathematical biology, population health, sociology, neuroscience, etc. He is member of the editorial board of the Nature Scientific Reports, PLOS One, and Entropy journals, and he has been an Editor for the highly selective journal Physical Review X. He is the recipient of the lifetime award for Outstanding Referee from the American Physical Society and has been recognized four times as a European Physical Society Distinguished Referee.
