Information

Membership Number: FCA3310

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Mathematics and Information Sciences

Corresponding Email: estrada@ifisc.uib-csic.es

Homepage(s): https://sites.google.com/view/ernestoestrada 

Present and Previous Positions

2021 – Present: Full Research Professor, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2018 – Present: Honorary Research Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Strathclyde, UK

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Ernesto Estrada is a mathematician, internationally leading the mathematical analysis of complex networks. He has developed the mathematical theory of network communicability, which is nowadays applied in many areas of interdisciplinary research, especially in the study of brain networks. He introduced what is now known as the Estrada index, a graph spectrum-based measure widely used in protein folding, mathematical chemistry, and general network analysis. He pioneered the concept of subgraph centrality, which counts the participation of nodes in all closed walks, giving finer insight into node importance in networks. He developed the spectral scaling approach and d path/hubs biased Laplacians, enabling modeling of long-range interactions and anomalous diffusion processes on networks. Estrada introduced communicability geometry, embedding networks into geometric spaces to analyze traffic flows, disease spread, and more. More recently, he has integrated fractional calculus and dynamic network modeling, applying these to several interdisciplinary areas of research.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

2024

• Elected Corresponding Member, Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas, Químicas y Naturales de Zaragoza

• Elected Fellow, International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)

2023

• Elected Fellow, Network Science Society

2021

• Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), UK

2019

• Elected SIAM Fellow, one of the most prestigious recognitions in applied mathematics worldwide, “for outstanding contributions to mathematical chemistry and network science”

• Elected Member, Latin American Academy of Sciences

2018

• Elected Honorary Member, Italian Society of Chaos and Complexity

• Pregl Colloquium Speaker, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia

2014

• Elected Member, Academia Europaea

• Awarded the 1964 Chair of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde (the department’s second most prestigious chair)

• Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Society of London, “for scientists of outstanding achievement and potential to the UK”

2012

• Plenary Speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA — widely regarded as the most important international conference in applied mathematics

2007

• Awarded Outstanding Scientist, International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry

2005

• Elected Full Member, International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry, “in recognition of his work and integrity that has contributed much to the field of mathematical chemistry”

1998

• National Prize, Cuban Academy of Sciences (Section of Natural Sciences), La Habana, Cuba, “for outstanding work on mathematical modeling in chemistry and molecular design”

Other Measures of Esteem

• Elected Positions:

• Member, Scientific Committee of the 23rd Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society, Galway, Ireland (2020)

• Member, Newton International Fellowships Committee (Physical Sciences), Royal Society, UK (2017–2019)

• Plenary Speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, USA (2012)

• Expert/Reviewer for:

• Israel Science Foundation (Research Grant Reviews)

• European Commission Projects

• Governmental Experts, MAPRA Network (Animal and Plant Health), European Food Safety Authority

• Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF, 2016)

• EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK)

• Romanian National Council for Research and Development

• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Veni Grants (Innovational Research Incentives Scheme)

Editorial Boards

• Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Complex Networks (Oxford University Press), 2013–present

• Associate Editor:

• SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2016–present

• Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2018–2024

• Mathematics, 2019–present

• Editorial Board Member:

• MATCH: Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, 2005–2023

• Entropy, 2015–2018

• Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science, 2001–2003

• Section Editor: Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (Springer Nature), 2016–present

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X0zSDpcAAAAJ&hl=en 

Other Information

Acknowledgement of Fellowship (1).docx

CV_Estrada Roger Ernesto.pdf