Group

 

Faculty

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Adilson E. Motter

Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor

Office: Tech F323
Phone: 847-491-4611
Fax: 847-491-9982
E-mail: motter [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Photo by Eileen Molony

Mailing Address

[Person's name]
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208 USA

Postdoctoral Researchers

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Thomas Wytock

Research: Modeling of Genetic Networks
Office: Tech F321
Phone: 847-467-2493
E-mail: t-wytock@northw...

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Arthur N. Montanari

Research: Network Dynamics
Office: Tech F325
Phone: 847-491-4602
E-mail: arthur.montanari@northw...

Graduate Students

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Chloe T. Calderon

Research: Biological Networks
Office: Tech F324
Phone: 847-491-4602
E-mail: chloecalderon2024@u.northw...

Yanxuan Charlotte Shao

Yanxuan (Charlotte) Shao

Research: Quantum and Fluid Networks
Office: Tech F324
Phone: 847-491-4602
E-mail: yanxuanshao2024@u.northw…

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Jorin Graham

Research: Complex Systems
Office: Tech F324
Phone: 847-491-4602
Email: joringraham2025@u.northw…

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Yi (Eva) Zhao

Research: Metamaterial Networks
Office: Tech F318
E-mail: yizhao2025@u.northw…

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Yian (Ann) Xu

Research: Biophysical Oscillations
Office: Tech F318
E-mail: yianxu2026@u.northw…

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Ana Elisa D. Barioni

Research: Network Dynamics
Office: Tech F324
Phone: 847-491-4602
E-mail: ana.barioni@north...

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Yuzuru Mitsui

Research: Network Dynamics
Visiting Student from the University of Tokyo, Japan
Office: Tech F325
E-mail: yuzuru.mitsui@north...

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Daniel Buser

Research: Quantum Dynamics
Office: Tech F324
E-mail: dpbuser@u.northw...

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Thomas Q. Mckenzie-Smith

Research: Network Data Science
Office: Tech F318
E-mail: ThomasMckenzie-smith2027@u.n...

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Pietro Zanin

Research: Synchronization Dynamics
Office: Tech F318
E-mail: pietrozanin2027@u.northw...

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Zhuoxuan (Jeff) Xie

Research: Quantum Networks
Office: Tech F324
E-mail: ZhuoxuanXie2027@u.northw...

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Buduka Ogonor

Research: AI and Machine Learning
Office: Tech F318

Undergraduate Students

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Benjia (Steve) Li

Remote intern from the University of Science and Technology of China
E-mail: qdlbjcxb@mail.ustc.edu.cn

Former Members

Takashi Nishikawa

Research Faculty
Research: Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics (2012-2022)

 

Josh Genender

Undergraduate Student
Research: Symmetry Phenomena (2020-22)
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at UCLA

 

Ka Man (Amanda) Chan

Undergraduate Student
Intern from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Research: Quantum information (Summer 22)

 

Fiona Brady

Undergraduate Student
Research: Network Dynamics (2018-21)
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Princeton University

 

Yuanzhao Zhang

Graduate Student
Research: Network Synchronization (2015-20)
Subsequent position: Schmidt Science Fellow at Cornell University and Santa Fe Institute

 

Arthur Montanari

Student visitor from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Research: Network Observability (2019-20)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg

 

Brandon Campbell

Summer Intern from Washington University in St. Louis
Research: Chemical Reaction Networks (Summer 2020)
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Harvard University

 

Daniel J. Case

Graduate Student
Research: Microfluidic Networks (2013-19)
Subsequent position: Manager, Search Engine Marketing at Cars.com

 

Pratyush Chakraborty

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Network Dynamics (2018-19)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Utah

 

Deniz Eroglu

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Network Dynamics (2017-18)
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor at Kadir Has University, Turkey

 

Phalguni Shah

Graduate Student (rotation)
Research: Network Stability (2016-17)
Program: Physics
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Northwestern University

 

Ferenc Molnar

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Network Dynamics (2015-17)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Notre Dame

 

Yang (Angela) Yang

Graduate Student
Research: Network Cascades, Network Observability (2010-16)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University

 

Daniel K. Wells

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Control of Chemical Networks (2015-16)
Subsequent position: Data Scientist at the Parker Institute

 

Aleksandar Haber

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Optimization and Control (2014-16)
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor at City University New York

 

Liyue (April) Zhang

Graduate Student
Visitor from Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Research: Oscillator Networks (2014-16)

 

Slava Tsirelnikov

Visiting Scholar
Research: Mechanical Materials (2012-15)

 

Xiaowen Chen

Undergraduate Student
Research: Transient Chaos (2014-15)
Program: ISP/Physics/Math
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Princeton University

 

Rosangela Follmann

Postdoctoral Fellow
Research: Network Synchronization (2012-15)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Illinois State University's School of Biological Sciences

 

Kyle McCall

Pre-doctoral Student
Research: Metamaterials (Summer 14)
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Northwestern University

 

Nicholas Boffi

Pre-doctoral Student
Research: Hamiltonian Chaos (Summer 14)
Subsequent position: Fulbright Student at Tel Aviv University, Israel (2014-15) and graduate student at Harvard University (2015- )

 

Joshua Williams

Undergraduate Student
Intern from Hampton University, Virginia
Research: Network Control (Summer 14)

 

Rita Andrade

Undergraduate Student
Intern from the University of California, Los Angeles
Research: Network Synchronization (Summer 13)

 

Daniel Wells

Graduate Student
Research: Epigenetic Networks (2011-13)
Program: ESAM

 

Elizabeth Hicks

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Advection Dynamics (2011-13)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow at CIERA

 

Sascha Herrmann

Undergraduate Student
Research: Nonlinear Dynamics (2010-12)
Program: Physics/ISP/Math
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Stanford University

 

Daniel Monge

Undergraduate Student
Intern from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Research: Chaos (Summer 12)

 

Sagar Sahasrabudhe

Graduate Student
Research: Network Rescue and Control (2007-11)
Program: Physics
Subsequent position: Financial Engineer at Spot Trading, Chicago

 

Takashi Nishikawa

Sabbatical Visitor
Research: Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics (2010)
Assistant Professor at Clarkson University

 

Dong-Hee Kim

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Complex Systems (2006-08)
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor at GIST, Korea

 

Tracy Yu

Undergraduate Student
Intern from The Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology
Research: Biological Networks (Summer 08)
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Northwestern University

 

Robert Deloatch

Undergraduate Student
Intern from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore
Research: Information Diffusion (Summer 08)
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Michelle Wu

Graduate Student (rotation)
Research: Cellular Metabolism (2006-07)
Program: Physics
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Northwestern University

 

Adrian Jinich

Undergraduate Student
Research: Cellular Metabolism (2005-06)
Program: Physics
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Harvard University

 

Tianyu (Terry) Wu

Undergraduate Student
Remote intern from Peking University
Research: Quantum information (Summer 22)

 

Chao Duan

Research Assistant Professor (2019-2022)
Postdoctoral Researcher (2018-2019)
Research: Energy Delivery Networks
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University

 

Alex Mercanti

Graduate Student
Research: Network Symmetries (on leave)

 

Zachary Nicolaou

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Dynamics of Complex Systems (2016-20)
Subsequent position: WRF Postdoctoral Fellow and Acting Instructor at the University of Washington

 

Erisa Apantaku

Administrative Assistant (2017-20)
Subsequent position: Journalist at the Invisible Institute

 

Yoshiki Sugitani

Sabbatical Visitor
Research: Network Synchronization (2019-20)
Faculty at the Ibaraki University, Japan

 

Gregory Keslin

Undergraduate Student
Intern from Miami University, OH
Research: Machine Learning and Networks (Summer 19)

 

Chiranjit Mitra

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Network Dynamics (2018-19)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Researcher

 

Bohan (George) Xu

Undergraduate Student
Research: Quantum Scattering (2015-17)
Program: Physics
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Penn State University

 

Daniel Rey

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Network Dynamics (2017-18)
Subsequent position: Senior Research and Development Engineer at ANSYS, Inc.

 

Hamed Valizadeh Haghi

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Power Systems Engineering, Data Analytics (2016-17)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Researcher at UCSD

 

Young Sul Cho

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Complex Networks (2015-16)
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor at Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea

 

Keanu Guardiola

Undergraduate Student
Intern from University of Puerto Rico
Research: Chaotic Dynamics (Summer 2016)

 

Yuan Lin

Graduate Student
Visitor from Fudan University, China
Research: Similarity Networks (2014-15)

 

Luciana Zanella Tytenicz

Research Associate and Group Administrator (2011-16)
Subsequent position: Senior Executive Assistant to the Chief Research Officer at the Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

 

Xavier Gutierrez

Undergraduate Student
Intern from University of Maryland, College Park
Research: Network Synchronization (Summer 15)

 

Wei-Ting Lin

Graduate Student (rotation)
Research: Metamaterials (2014-15)
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Northwestern University

 

Joo Sang Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow
Research: Physics of Cancer Metabolism (2012-14)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and University of Maryland, College Park

 

Erik Johnson

Undergraduate Student
Research: Structural Networks (2013-14)
Program: Physics
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at UCSB

 

Sean Cornelius

Graduate Student
Research: Network Rescue and Control (2008-14)
Program: Physics
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Northeastern University and Harvard University

 

Hongzi (Tony) Mao

Undergraduate Student
Intern from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Research: Similarity Networks (Fall 13)
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at MIT

 

Michael Schnabel

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Biological Networks (2010-13)
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University

 

Daniel O. Cajueiro

Sabbatical Visitor
Research: Complex Systems and Control Theory (2012-13)
Faculty at the University of Brasília, Brazil

 

Zakary Whichard

Graduate Student
Research: Drug Target Identification (2011-13)
Program: Physics
Subsequent position: Associate Risk Manager at Quantitative Risk Management

 

Joo Sang Lee

Graduate Student
Research: Physics of Cancer Metabolism (2006-12)
Program: Physics
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University

 

Jie (Rio) Sun

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Network Rescue and Control (2010-12)
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor at Clarkson University

 

Zachary Nicolaou

Undergraduate Student/Visitor
Research: Structural Networks (2008-11)
Program: Physics/ISP/Math
Subsequent positions: Graduate Student at Cambridge University and Caltech

 

Ian Lizarraga

Undergraduate Student
Research: Statistical Physics (2009-10)
Program: Physics/Math
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Cornell University

 

Eduardo G. Altmann

NICO Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Complex Systems (2008-09)
Subsequent position: Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

 

Seth Myers

Undergraduate Student
Research: Power-grid Networks (2006-08)
Program: Physics/ISP
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at Stanford University

 

Nicole Carlson

Undergraduate Student
Research: Complex Networks (2007-08)
Program: Physics/ISP
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at the University of California, Berkeley

 

Justin Lieber

Undergraduate Student (rotation)
Research: Chaotic Dynamics (2006-07)
Program: Physics/ISP
Subsequent position: Graduate Student at the University of Chicago