Filippo Radicchi, professor of Informatics at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computers, and Engineering, is the new associate editor at Physical Review E, the flagship journal for Complex Networks and Systems research.
Physical Review E is a broad and interdisciplinary journal focusing on collective phenomena of many-body systems. It covers recent developments in complex fluids, polymers, liquid crystals, and granular materials. The journal also includes sections on solid mechanics, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, computational physics, networks, and complex systems.
Radicchi will focus on manuscripts submitted to the journal’s “Networks and Complex Systems” section. It receives about 300 submissions per year.
Radicchi said one of his goals is to help the journal keep growing beyond its traditional topics of statistical physics toward more application and data-driven research.
“This is a very important position for my scientific community of reference,” he said.
The position was previously held by world-renowned researchers Marc Barthelemy and Alex Arenas. Barthelemy studies spatial networks and their role in predicting global epidemics. Arenas focuses on understanding complex networked systems from physics and computation perspectives.
“Professor Radicchi is a world-recognized authority in the field of complex networks,” said Johan Bollen, Informatics chair and professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science. “He has made seminal contributions to the development of community detection methods and models describing the complex dynamics of network systems, furthering our understanding of collective phenomena in culture, society, economics, and physics. His work is of pivotal importance to supporting the eminence of our department, school, and Indiana University in this interdisciplinary field.
“We are very excited, but not entirely surprised, about his receiving such an honor from one of the field’s most esteemed journals and publishers. It’s a well-deserved recognition of his stature among the thought-leaders in networks and complex systems.”
Radicchi is part of Luddy’s Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, which focuses on fostering interdisciplinary research in all areas related to complex networks and systems, computational social science and data science.