BRIEF VITA

    • Jesús Gomez-Gardeñes (23/12/1979) received the degree in Physics from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in the year 2002, and a Ph.D. in Science (Physics) from the same University in 2006 that was awarded with “Premio Extraordinario”. After a two-years postdoctoral period at the Scuola Superiore di Catania (Italy) and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) as a “Juan de la Cierva” researcher. Later, he joins the Applied Mathematics Department of the University Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid) as an Assistant Professor until the end of the year 2010. In January 2011 he returns to his alma mater, the University of Zaragoza, as “Ramón y Cajal” senior researcher where, since April 2023, he is Full Professor and leads the GOTHAM lab at the Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex System (BIFI).
  • Research interests
    • Nonlinear dynamics
      Complex Systems and Networks
      Epidemic spreading
      Emergence of behaviors and culture in Social systems
      Synchronization phenomena
  • AWARDS & Fellowships
    • Beca Doctorado I3P – call 2002
      Beca de Formación de Profesorado Universitario FPU – call 2003
      Premio Extraordinario de doctorado - 2006
      Premio Investigador Novel de la Real Sociedad Española de Física - 2006
      Beca postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva – call 2007
      Postdoctoral Fellowship of Weizmann Institute of Technology – call 2007
      Beca postdoctoral Ramon y Cajal – call 2010
      Distinguished Visitor of SUPA (Scottish Universities Physics Alliance) - 2014
      Profesor Visitante Especial (CNPq Centro Nacional Pesquisas, Brasil) -2014
      Visiting Researcher of the London Mathematical Society – 2015
      Research Fellow of the Center for Computational Social Science (University of Kobe, Japan) – since 2019