Professor
Shlomo Havlin
Shlomo Havlin is a Professor in the Physics Department at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has carried out fundamental research in statistical physics and its applications to areas such as complex networks, infrastructure resilience, geophysics, climate, medicine, biology, traffic and others. Most recently, he has focused on interdependence between infrastructure networks such as the power grid and communications network; interdependent physical systems and novel methods for understanding and forecasting traffic congestion in urban settings. Havlin has published over 800 scientific papers and is among the two most cited scientists in Israel with over 100,000 citations and an h-index of 150 (Google Scholar). For his works, he has been awarded the Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society, the Rothschild Prize, the Order of the Star of Italy, the Israel Prize for Physics and Chemistry and the 2023 Bakhuis Rooseboom Medal of the Royal Society of Science of Netherlands.
Major Research Interests
Recent Publications
Delayed citation impact of interdisciplinary research
Possible origin for the similar phase transitions in k-core and interdependent networks
Spatiotemporal dynamics of traffic bottlenecks yields an early signal of heavy congestions
Professor Havlin’s Publication Network
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