Alessandro Vespignani

Alessandro Vespignani is an Italian physicist and Sternberg Distinguished Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences at Northeastern University.

Vespignani is known for his work on complex networks, and particularly for work on the applications of network theory to the spread of disease and for studies of the topological properties of the Internet. He is author, together with Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, of the book Evolution and Structure of the Internet. Together with Alain Barrat and Marc Barthelemy he has published in 2008 the monograph Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks. He is currently completing a book on Self-organized criticality and avalanche phenomena with S. Zapperi for Oxford University Press. Vespignani is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society and is serving in the board/leadership of a variety of professional associations, institutions and journals.