Bio

Roger Guimerà (Barcelona, 1976) graduated in Physics at Universitat de Barcelona in 1998, and obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Universitat Rovira i Virgili in 2003. He then moved to Northwestern University, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and, later, as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2008 he became a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern’s department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, before accepting his current position at ICREA.

Education

• Ph. D. Chemical Engineering (Advisors: A. Arenas, A. Diaz-Guilera, and F. Giralt), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia (2002)
• B. Sc. Physics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya (1998)

Appointments

• Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, US (2010-2012)
• ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia (2010-2012)
• Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, US (2008-2009)
• Research Associate, Northwestern University, Evanston, US (2006-2007)
• Fulbright Scholar, Northwestern University, Evanston, US (2004-2005)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, US (2003-2003)

Awards and honors

• Erdos–Renyi Prize in Network Science, Network Science Society (2012)
• Premi de Recerca de Catalunya - Joves Investigadors, Talència - Generalitat de Catalunya (2010)
• Session organizer, chair, and invited speaker at the SIAM Optimization conference, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2005)
• Fulbright Scholarship, Fulbright Scholar Program (2004)