Eduardo López

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Academic Background

1. Undergraduate education: Licenciado en Física
   Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
2. Graduate education: Master of Arts, Physics
   Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
3. Graduate education: PhD, Physics
   Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Research Interests

1. Flow in complex networks and lattices: Tracer flows in percolation and exponential disorder, with applications to oil extraction problems. Physical flows in random and scale-free networks with an interest in their applicability to real-world problems such as infectious disease propagation, metabolic network fluxes, and Internet data flow.
2. The study of structural properties of complex networks: Construction of data based networks of technological and biological problems. Study of network properties such as degree distribution, clustering properties, link weight distribution, community identification, degree-degree correlations, etc.
3. Effect of disorder on optimization problems in complex networks and lattices: Fractal properties of optimal path lengths in broadly disordered systems, and their applications to transport problems such as flow through porous rocks, data flow through the Internet and metabolic fluxes on metabolic networks. Calculations of optimal flow costs.
4. Surface growth dynamics: Behavior of a crystalline growing interface in the presence of long-range interactions. Highly disordered soliton gases.

Publications and Proceedings

1. Percolation
2. Networks
3. Disordered Lattices
4. Soliton Gases
5. Proceedings and Book Chapters
6. Postscript of Doctoral Thesis (which contains some of the publications)

Media Interviews

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