Professor Plamen Ch. Ivanov announced as American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow

AAAS honored Prof. Plamen Ch. Ivanov as the founder of Network Physiology, a multidisciplinary field studying how the dynamic network interactions among human physiological systems and organs across spatial-temporal scales lead to emerging states and functions at the organism level and influence our health. He’s laying the groundwork to build the Human Physiolome [link to: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/network-physiology/articles/10.3389/fnetp.2021.711778/full], a dynamic atlas comprising thousands (possibly millions) of network maps representing the body’s functional behavior under various conditions, spanning molecular interactions to organ systems .

This pioneering research was made possible in part through a $1M W.M. Keck Foundation Award and has led to a new multidisciplinary scientific field in which physicists can make major contributions to understanding human physiology, health and disease.

Prof. Ivanov was recognized as AAAS Fellow with the following citation: “For distinguished contributions to physics and physiology, including discovery of multifractality, self-organized criticality, sleep- and circadian-related phase transitions in physiologic dynamics, and for pioneering Network Physiology to study integration among systems.”

Prof. Ivanov is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2010). His discoveries have been broadly featured in the Media, including Scientific American (2004), Science News (1996, 2012), Nature Science Update (2003, 2004), New Scientist (1999, 2002), Physics World (2016), Nature Medicine Research Highlights (2005), Washington Post (2005), Futurity Magazine (2015), The Boston Globe (2015).

His research has been funded by NIH, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF).