The Transylvania-born, internationally renowned network scientist obtained his doctoral degree in 1994 at Boston University, following the completion of his master’s studies in physics at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). He currently serves as the director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University, Boston, and holds a professorship at Harvard University.
He is credited with the discovery of scale-free networks and the formulation of the Barabási–Albert model, which provides a fundamental framework for understanding the structural properties of the World Wide Web, complex metabolic systems, and genetic networks. He is a member of the American Physical Society, an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Academia Europaea. His scientific contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Prima Primissima Prize and the Neumann János Medal. Additionally, he is the author of several influential popular science books.