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
Slower searching yields higher efficiency: A case study of taxi drivers
Evaluating in-vivo spontaneous firing rate in the brain based on neuronal noise modeling
The random cascading origin of abrupt transitions in interdependent systems
Professor Havlin’s Publication Network
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