Aaron Clauset is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He received a PhD in Computer Science, with distinction, from the University of New Mexico, a BS in Physics, with honors, from Haverford College, and was an Omidyar Fellow at the prestigious Santa Fe Institute.
He is an internationally recognized expert on network science and computational analyses of complex systems. His work on networks and complex systems has appeared in prestigious scientific venues like Nature, Science, PNAS, JACM, SIAM ReviewÌýand Physical Review Letters, and has been covered in the popular press by The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Slate, Discover Magazine, New Scientist, Wired, Miller-McCune, the Boston GlobeÌýand The Guardian.