Yamir Moreno got his PhD in Physics (Summa Cum Laude, 2000) from the University of Zaragoza. He is the Director of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), the head of the Complex Systems and Networks Lab (COSNET), and Professor of Physics at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Zaragoza. Prof. Moreno is also an External Professor of the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria. He received the Complex Systems Society's Senior Scientific Award in 2019 and the Service Award in 2022. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field 2019 (Web of Science) and was a first-class Fellow of the ISI Foundation (2013). Prof. Moreno is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (2021) and the Network Science Society (2022). He was also a Principal Scientist and Area Coordinator at the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy from 2017 to 2022 and a Research Director, Principal Scientist, and Chair of the Steering Committee of Centai Institute in Turin, Italy from 2022 to 2024. Prof. Moreno was the President of the Network Science Society from 2018 to 2022 and the President of the Complex Systems Society from 2015 to 2018.
Prof. Moreno is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Complex Networks, was a Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters from September 2014 to September 2020, and has been an Editor of PLoS Computational Biology (2021-), the New Journal of Physics (2018-2023), Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (2018-), and a member of the Editorial Boards of PLoS ONE (2010-2018), Scientific Reports (2012-2018), Applied Network Science (2016-), Frontiers in Physics (2018-2023) and Proc Royal Society A (2022-). He is a regular reviewer for over 30 journals (including the Nature family journals, Science, PRL, etc.) and 6 Research Agencies, among which the EU, the ERC, the National Science Foundation of the USA, the French Research Agency, and the Netherland Research Agency. Prof. Moreno was a member of the Future and Emerging Technology Advisory Group of the EU Research Framework (from 2014-2018) and of the Advisory Board of the WHO Collaborative Center Complexity Sciences for Health Systems (CS4HS), whose headquarters was at the University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, in Vancouver, Canada. He is a shareholder of two research-driven companies.
Research focus
Yamir's field of research is in the theoretical foundations of complex systems, which he investigates using tools from mathematics, physics, and network science. Prof. Moreno's research interests include disease dynamics, diffusion processes, mathematical biology, nonlinear dynamical processes, and the structure and dynamics of complex systems.