Marta Sales-Pardo
Alma mater
AwardsFulbright scholar
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorFelix Ritort

Marta Sales-Pardo (born 1976) is a Spanish statistical physicist, complex systems scientist, and network scientist. She is an associate professor at Rovira i Virgili University, in the Department of Chemical Engineering.[1] She is notable for her contributions to complex networks, where she has studied both social and biochemical systems, especially the contribution of each node or individual to the overall network. Her research has earned several mentions in the Fulbright Program[2] and the ICREA Program,[3] among others.

Education and career

Sales-Pardo earned a Bachelors of Science in physics from the University of Barcelona in 1998. She then earned a PhD in physics from the University of Barcelona in 2002, advised by Felix Ritort. In 2003, she became a post-doctoral fellow at the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Northwestern University. She obtained the Fulbright scholarship in 2004 for two years, and in 2008 became a research assistant professor at Northwestern University. Since 2010, she has been an associate professor at Rovira i Virgili University.[4]

Research

Sales-Pardo is most well known for her studies on complex networks, including a paper studying the statistical significance of modularity in randomly-generated complex networks.[5] Her most cited works discuss how to mine data from large complex networks accurately, successfully capturing the properties of the mined distribution.[6][7]

Recognition

In 2021, Sales-Pardo was named a Fellow of the Network Science Society, "for her contributions to the understanding of the organisation of large-scale networks and the development of generative models and inference methodologies for complex networks". She was the first Spanish woman to win this honor.[8]

References

  1. ^ Marta Sales Pardo Discusses Complex Systems & Network Science, SAGE Research Methods, retrieved 2020-12-13
  2. ^ Marta Sales-Pardo, Science and Engineering of Emerging Systems Lab, retrieved 2020-12-13
  3. ^ Marta Sales-Pardo, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, retrieved 2020-12-13
  4. ^ Marta Sales-Pardo, Northwestern University, retrieved 2020-12-13
  5. ^ Guimera, Roger; Sales-Pardo, Marta (August 19, 2004), "Modularity from fluctuations in random graphs and complex networks", Physical Review, 70 (2): 025101, arXiv:cond-mat/0403660, Bibcode:2004PhRvE..70b5101G, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.70.025101, PMC 2441765, PMID 15447530
  6. ^ Guimera, Roger; Sales-Pardo, Marta (2009), "Missing and spurious interactions and the reconstruction of complex networks", PNAS, 106 (52): 22073–22078, arXiv:1004.4791, Bibcode:2009PNAS..10622073G, doi:10.1073/pnas.0908366106, PMC 2799723, PMID 20018705, S2CID 47399
  7. ^ Sales-Pardo, Marta; Guimera, Roger (2007), "Extracting the hierarchical organization of complex systems", PNAS, 104 (39): 15224–9, arXiv:0705.1679, Bibcode:2007PNAS..10415224S, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703740104, PMC 2000510, PMID 17881571
  8. ^ The Network Science Society recognises the research on networks of the physicist Marta Sales Pardo, University of Rovira i Virgili, 12 July 2021, retrieved 2022-02-26

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