Introduction
Baruch Barzel (born March 19, 1976) is an Israeli physicist and applied mathematician, holding a faculty position at Bar-Ilan University mathematics department . His main areas are statistical physics, complex systems, nonlinear dynamics and network science. Barzel has completed his Ph.D. in physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel as a Hoffman Fellow. He then pursued his postdoctoral training at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University and at the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Barzel is also an active public lecturer on science and on Judaism, and presents a weekly corner on Jewish thought on Israel National Radio .
Dr. Barzel's research focuses on the dynamic behavior of complex networks, uncovering universal principles that govern the dynamics of diverse systems, such as disease spreading, gene regulatory networks, protein interactions or population dynamics.
Selected publications
- B. Barzel and O. Biham, "Binomial Moment Equations for Stochastic Reaction Systems", Physical Review Letters 106, 150602 (2011)
- B. Barzel and A.-L. Barabási, "Universality in Network Dynamics", Nature Physics 9, 673-681 (2013)
- B. Barzel and A.-L. Barabási, "Network link prediction by global silencing of indirect correlations", Nature Biotechnology 31, 720-725 (2013)
- B. Barzel Y.-Y. Liu and A.-L. Barabási, "Constructing minimal models for complex system dynamics", Nature Communications 6, 7186 (2015)
- G. Yan, G. Tsekenis, B. Barzel Y.-Y. Liu, J.J. Slotine and A.-L. Barabási, "Spectrum of controlling and observing complex networks", Nature Physics 11, 779 (2015)
- J. Gao, B. Barzel and A.-L. Barabási, "Universal resilience patterns in complex networks", Nature 530, 307 (2016)
Public lectures and media coverage
- Interview on Ynet on Universal resilience patterns in complex networks (Hebrew) "[1]"
- Bar-Ilan Nitzotzot meeting 2015 (Hebrew) "Connecting the world in six steps"