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Gómez Gardeñes, Jesús
Department: Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
Field: Física de la Materia Condensada
Faculty: Facultad de Ciencias

Research Institute: INSTITUTO DE BIOCOMPUTACIÓN Y FÍSICA DE SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS (BIFI)
Group: E36_23R: Física Estadística y No Lineal (FENOL)

Number of 6-year periods of research productivity evaluation
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/22
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/20. (2)
Academic position: Cated. Universidad

Academic position
  • Director de Secretariado de Organización y Monitorización de la Investigación e Innovación
Personal web page: http://complex.unizar.es/~jesus/
ORCID number: 0000-0001-5204-1937

Research interests
  • Fisica st -- mecanica estadistica
  • Fisica cs -- sistemas complejos
  • Fisica bp -- fisica biologica

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Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes obtained his Physics degree from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 2002, and completed his Ph.D. in Science (Physics) at the same university in 2006, receiving the "Premio Extraordinario" award. Following a two-year postdoctoral period at the Scuola Superiore di Catania (Italy) and the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) as a "Juan de la Cierva" researcher, he joined the Applied Mathematics Department of the University Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid) as Assistant Professor in October 2008. In January 2011, he became a "Ramón y Cajal" senior researcher at the University of Zaragoza where, after several promotions, he is Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) since March 2023.

In 2018, Gómez-Gardeñes founds and leads the Group of Theoretical & Applied Modeling (GOTHAM lab) based at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI). His primary research areas include Statistical Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, and the theory of Complex Networks. His focus lies in studying the emergence of collective phenomena, nonlinearity, and the complex structure of interactions within biological, social, and technological systems. Key research topics include energy localization, synchronization, random walks, traffic congestion, disease propagation, and evolutionary dynamics. In summary, he has coauthored more than 150 publications in international refereed journals, including Nature Physics, Nature Human Behavior, PNAS (2), Science Advances (3), Physical Review X (3), Physical Review Letters (9), Nature Communications, Advances in Physics, and Physics Reports among others. These publications have the following general indicators according to Web of Science: 87 publications are published in D1 journals (more than 135 in Q1 ones).

His research was recognized by 3 research periods (Sexenios CNEAI: 2004-09, 2010-15 & 2016-21) and by the Royal Physical Society of Spain with the prize Best Young Researcher (“Investigador Novel”) in Theoretical Physics. Internationally, his work has been recognized in several venues. He has been Distinguished Visitor of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance in 2013, Special Visiting Researcher of the CNPq in Brazil (2013-2015), visiting researcher of the London Mathematical Society in 2015 and, since 2019, he is Research Fellow of the Center for Computational Social Science (at Kobe University in Japan). In addition, he has been included in the Stanford University ranking of the 2% most influential scientists of the year since its creation in 2017.

Regarding his participation in scientific events, in the period Dr. Gómez-Gardeñes has been invited/plenary speaker in 54 conferences and invited lecturer in 28 international schools and courses. In addition, he has organized 10 international events, highlighting two international schools at ICTP-SAIFR and being co-founder of the Latin American Conference on Complex Networks that accumulates three editions: Puebla (Mexico) in 2017, Cartagena (Colombia) in 2019 and Cusco (Perú) in 2023.

Finally, Dr. Gómez-Gardeñes has supervised: 9 Doctoral Theses (4 more are currently in progress), 20 Master Theses and more than 40 Final Degree Works. All the doctoral theses supervised have obtained the highest mark (“Summa Cum Laude”) being 2 of them recognized with two additional prizes to the best theses.


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