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Updated on May 13th, 2010.

Hernan Rozenfeld

Hernán D. Rozenfeld

email:
hernanrozenfeld_at_gmail_dot_com
(without underscores)

address:
APS Editorial Office
1 Research Rd.
Ridge, NY 11961

phone:
315-212-3449 (Cell)
212-650-8219 (Office)
212-650-6835 (Fax)

Research interests:

Population dynamics, migration and growth in cities. Statistical studies of social segregation. Structure, topology and modeling of Complex Networks. Random Walks and Diffusion. Percolation, self-similarity, multiscaling and dimensionality in Scale-Free Networks. Monte-Carlo Simulations.

Education:

Fall 2004-Summer 2007. Clarkson University, Potsdam NY, USA.
Ph.D. in Physics: GPA 4.0

Summer 2003-Fall 2004. Clarkson University, Potsdam NY, USA.
MS Physics: GPA 4.0

1997-Spring-2003. Universidad De La Plata, Argentina.
Major: Physics. Av. grade = 9.2/10

Experience:

  1. May 2010 - Present Physical Review E. Ridge NY, USA. Assistant Editor.
  2. January 2010- May 2010 College of Mount Saint Vincent. Bronx NY, USA. Adjunct Associate Professor.
  3. September 2009- May 2010 CUNY. New York NY, USA. Adjunct Associate Professor.
  4. July 2007- Present. City College of New York. New York NY, USA.
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
    Developing algorithms to construct economically and geographically meaningful cities from high-resolution census population data, that may be used to study economical and social factors in a systematic way. Extensive coding of programs in Python and C++ to analyze the structure, properties, and dynamics of complex systems, including numerical analysis and Monte-Carlo simulations. Developed thousands of lines of code to study statistical properties of large quantities of data, involving biological and sociological data.
  5. July 2005- Summer 2007. Clarkson University. Potsdam NY, USA.
    Graduate Teacher Assistant.
    Teacher assistant for undergraduate students.
  6. June 2005-August 2005. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos NM, USA.
    Summer Graduate Research Program.
    Structure of Bipartite Social Networks.
  7. June 2004-August 2004. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos NM, USA.
    Summer Graduate Research Program.
    Assortativity and Clustering in Bipartite Networks.
  8. August 2003-June 2005. Clarkson University. Potsdam NY, USA.
    Graduate Research Assistant.
    Structure and Topology of Complex Networks.
  9. January 2001-May 2003. Universidad de La Plata. Argentina.
    Undergraduate Research Assistant.
    Monte-Carlo Simulations and Random Walks on Scale-Free Networks.
  10. January 1999-December 1999. Universidad de La Plata. Argentina.
    Ad-honorem Undergraduate Teacher Assistant.
    Teacher Assistant undergraduate students.

Committees and technical duties:

December 2000 - March 2001 Universidad de La Plata. Argentina. Committee Member of Selection of Physics Teacher Assistants.

Recognition and honors:

  1. June 2006. OUTSTANDING TEACHING ASSISTANT AWARD.
    American Association of Physics Teachers, USA.
  2. June 2006. AWARDED MEMBERSHIP TO THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICS TEACHERS (AAPT).
  3. May 2006. ACHIEVED RECOGNITION FOR TA PERFORMANCE IN FIRST-YEAR PHYSICS COURSES.
    Clarkson University, Potsdam NY, USA.
  4. Sep 2007. SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND A STATISTICAL PHYSICS SUMMER SCHOOL IN LEUVEN, BELGIUM.
    Clarkson University, Potsdam NY, USA.
  5. Feb 2009. SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND AFPA7 CONFERENCE IN TOKYO JAPAN.
    Hitotsubashi Univeristy and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
    City College of New York, New York NY, USA.

Society memberships:

American Physical Society (APS)

American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

Conference and workshop presentations:

  1. March 2009 "Renormalization in Complex Networks"
    APS March Meeting 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  2. Feb 2009 "Laws of Population Growth"
    AFPA7 Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
  3. Feb 2009 "Zipf`s Law for all cities"
    AFPA7 Conference, Tokyo, Japan. `
  4. March 2008 "Modular Structure of Protein Interaction Networks"
    APS March Meeting 2008, New Orleans LA, USA.
  5. June 2007 "Percolation In Hierarchical Scale-Free Networks"
    NetSci Conference 2007, Queens NY, USA.
  6. September 2005 "Statistics of cycles: How Loopy is your Network?"
    Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XI Leuven. Leuven, Belgium.
  7. August 2005 "Properties of Social Bipartite Networks"
    Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos NM, USA.
  8. May 2005 "Statistics of cycles: How Loopy is your Network?"
    SIAM Conference. Snowbird UT, USA.
  9. December 2004 "Designer Nets from Local Strategies"
    Rutgers University 73rd Annual Conference. Rutgers NJ, USA.
  10. September 2004 "Designer Nets from Local Strategies"
    Clarkson University Physics Seminars. Potsdam NY, USA.
  11. August 2004 "Maximal Properties of Bipartite Networks"
    Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos NM, USA.
  12. March 2004 "Designer Nets from Local Strategies"
    American Physical Society March Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
  13. March 2003 Undergraduate Final Thesis: "Random Walks on Complex Networks"
    Universidad Nacional de La Plata Physics Department. La Plata, Argentina.
  14. December 2002 "Random Walks on Complex Networks"
    Medyfinol. Colonia, Uruguay.
  15. March 2001 "Bose-Einstein Condensation in d-dimensions"
    Annual AFA (Argentinean Physics Association) conference. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Publications in refereed journals (includes papers in preparation and under review):

  1. Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Lazaros Gallos, Hernan A. Makse.
    "Explosive Percolation in a Real-World Complex Network."
    To appear in Europ. Phys. J. B Download
  2. Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Diego Rybski, Xavier Gabaix, Hernan A. Makse.
    "The City Size Distribution and Zipf's Law: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities."
    To appear in American Economic Review.Download
  3. Diego Rybski, Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Juergen P. Kropp
    "Quantifying long-range correlations in complex networks beyond nearest neighbors."
    To appear in Europ. Phys. Lett.
  4. Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Diego Rybski, Jose A. Soares, Jr., Michael Batty, H. Eugene Stanley, Hernan A. Makse.
    "Laws of Population Growth".
    PNAS 108, p.18702-18707 (2008). Download
  5. Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Hernan A. Makse.
    "Percolation in fractal Scale-Free Networks".
    Chemical Engineering Science, 64 (22), p.4572-4575 (2009).
  6. Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Chaoming Song, Hernan A. Makse.
    "Small-World to Fractal Transition in Complex Networks: A Renormalization Group Approach".
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025701 (2010). Download
  7. Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Daniel ben-Avraham.
    "Percolation in Hierarchical Scale-Free Nets".
    Phys. Rev. E 75, 061102 (2007). Download
  8. Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Shlomo Havlin, Daniel ben-Avraham.
    "Fractal and Transfractal Recursive Scale-Free Nets".
    New J. Phys. 9 No 6 (June 2007) 175. Download
  9. Francesc Comellas, Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Daniel ben-Avraham.
    "Synchronous and Asynchronous Recursive Random Scale-Free Nets"
    Phys. Rev. E 72, 046142 (2005). Download
  10. Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Joseph Kirk, Erik Bollt, Daniel ben-Avraham
    "Statistics of Cycles: How Loopy is your Network?"
    J. Phys. A 38, 4589-4595 (2005). Download
  11. James Bagrow, Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Erik Bollt, Daniel ben-Avraham.
    "How Famous is a Scientist? -- Famous to Those Who Know Us"
    Europ. Phys. Lett., 2004, v.67, No 4, p.511. Download
  12. Hernan D. Rozenfeld and Daniel ben-Avraham.
    "Designer Nets from Local Strategies"
    Phys. Rev. E 70, 056107 (2004). Download

Computer Skills:

  1. Computer Languajes: C/C++, Python, Fortran, Html, PHP, MySql, Flash.
  2. Operating systems: Mac OS X, Linux, Windows Operating Systems.

Languages:

  1. Spanish (mother tongue).
  2. English.
  3. Hebrew (intermediate).

Books and Other Publications:

  1. H. Rozenfeld, L. Gallos, C. Song, H. Makse.
    "Fractal and Transfractal Scale-Free Networks." Download
    Entry in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science.
  2. H. Rozenfeld.
    "Structure and Properties of Complex networks".
    VDM Publishing, Germany (2009).