Research & Scientific Contributions
Most important scientific contributions (together with co-authors).
1. Population Cycles & Phase Synchronization
- Seminal contributions to the field of population cycles (Nature 1999, PNAS 2010, Nature Ecol. Evo. 2017, Nature 2020)
- Pioneering the notion of phase synchronization in ecology (Nature 1999)
- Discovery of the phenomenon of anomalous phase synchronization (Phys. Rev. E 2003)
- Discovery of the phenomenon of an enhanced Moran effect (Nature Comm. 2015)
- Discovery of quasiregular ring waves in heterogenous media (Nature 1999, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2005, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007)
- First discovery of chimera states in coupled populations of oscillators (Phys. Rev. E 2004)
2. Biological Invasions & Epidemic Spread
- Major contributions to the theory of biological invasions (Ecol. Lett. 2013, Glob. Change. Bio. 2015, PNAS 2016, Ecol. Lett. 2017, Nature Comm. 2017, PNAS 2018)
- Postulation of the intermediate distance hypothesis for biological invasions (Ecol. Lett. 2017)
- First quantitative description of the global shipping network (J. R. Soc. Interface 2010)
- The first epidemic model that accounts for feedback between contact networks and epidemic states (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006)
3. Adaptive Networks & Complex Systems
- Originating the field of adaptive networks (J. R. Soc. Interface 2007)
- Introduction of structural kinetic modelling to metabolic networks (PNAS 2006)
- Discovery of the phenomenon of supersensitivity to model structure (Biol. Lett. 2004)
4. Biodiversity & Microbiology
- Formulation of the Gossip paradox of why bacteria share genes (Math. Biosc. & Eng. 2022)
- A framework to infer species traits from monitoring data (PNAS 2022)
- Theory of resource competition in inverse gradients (Ecol. Lett. 2011)
5. Applied Statistical Physics
- Pioneering the statistical physics of board games (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009)
- Discovery of power-law distribution in popularity of chess games and COVID-19 cases (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009, Chaos 2020)