Adilson E. Motter

Adilson E. Motter
Residence United States
Fields Physics, Applied Math
Institutions Northwestern University
Notable awards Sloan Research Fellow (2009)
NSF CAREER Award (2011)
Erdös-Rényi Prize (2013)
Simons Foundation Fellow (2015)
Fellow of the AAAS (2015)

Adilson E. Motter (Brazil, January 1, 1974), is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics at Northwestern University, where he has helped develop the concept of synthetic rescue in network biology as well as methods to control the nonlinear dynamics of complex networks. Motter's research is focused on complex systems and nonlinear phenomena, primarily involving complex networks, systems biology, chaos and statistical physics.

Scientific activity

Motter has contributed to the study of nonlinear phenomena in complex systems. He and his collaborators have established conditions for the synchronization of power grids [1][2] and other complex networks.[3][4] Together with his former student Z. Nicolaou, he designed a class of mechanical metamaterials that exhibit longitudinal negative compressibility.[5] He has devised local methods for cascade control in distributed systems.[6] His group has studied implications of these methods for the recovery of lost function in biological [7][8] and ecological [9][10] networks and for the control of complex networks in general.[11][12][13] In other areas he is known for accommodating the formalism of chaos theory within general relativity [14][15] and, along with his collaborators, for establishing the three degrees of separation for English words.[16]

Awards

Motter is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow in 2009, received an NSF CAREER Award in 2011, and was awarded the Erdös-Rényi Prize in Network Science in 2013. In 2014 he was identified among the 30 most promising scientists under the age of 40 born in Latin America, according to a survey conducted jointly by the magazine Qué Pasa and the blog LatinAmericanScience.org. [17] In 2015, the Simons Foundation named Motter one of their Fellows in Theoretical Physics. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

References

  1. ↑ Motter A. E., Myers S. A., Anghel M., and Nishikawa T., Spontaneous synchrony in power-grid networks, Nature Physics 9, 191 (2013).
  2. ↑ Better power grid synchronization may enable smart grids to self-recover from failures, Phys.Org, February 22, 2013, by Lisa Zyga.
  3. ↑ Motter A. E., Zhou C. Z. and Kurths J., Network Synchronization, Diffusion, and the Paradox of Heterogeneity, Physical Review E 71, 016116 (2005).
  4. ↑ Nishikawa T. and Motter A. E., Network Synchronization Landscape Reveals Compensatory Structures, Quantization, and the Positive Effect of Negative Interactions, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 10342 (2010).
  5. ↑ Nicolaou Z. G. and Motter A. E., Mechanical metamaterials with negative compressibility transitions, Nature Materials 11, 608 (2012).
  6. ↑ Motter A. E., Cascade Control and Defense in Complex Networks, Physical Review Letters 93, 098701 (2004).
  7. ↑ Motter A. E., Gulbahce N., Almaas E., and Barabasi A.-L., Predicting Synthetic Rescues in Metabolic Networks, Molecular Systems Biology 4, 168 (2008).
  8. ↑ Work with Power Grids Leads to Cell Biology Discovery.
  9. ↑ Sahasrabudhe S. and Motter A. E, Rescuing Ecosystems from Extinction Cascades through Compensatory Perturbations, Nature Communications 2, 170 (2011).
  10. ↑ Mathematical model could help predict and prevent future extinctions, National Science Foundation, January 25, 2011, by Lisa Van Pay.
  11. ↑ Cornelius S. P., Kath W. L., and Motter A. E., Realistic Control of Network Dynamics, Nature Communications 4, 1942 (2013).
  12. ↑ Sun J. and Motter A. E.,Controllability transition and nonlocality in network control, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 208701 (2013).
  13. ↑ Cornelius S. P. and Motter A. E., NECO - A scalable algorithm for NEtwork COntrol, Protocol Exchange (2013), doi:10.1038/protex.2013.063.
  14. ↑ Motter A. E., Relativistic Chaos is Coordinate Invariant, Physical Review Letters 91, 231101 (2003).
  15. ↑ Gelfert K. and Motter A. E., (Non)Invariance of Dynamical Quantities for Orbit Equivalent Flows, Communications in Mathematical Physics 300, 411 (2010).
  16. ↑ Small word network, Nature Science Update, July 2, 2002, by Philip Ball.
  17. ↑ LatinAmérica Genial, Qué Pasa, May 2, 2014.

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