Emeritus

Research Interests:

Puzzles of Interdisciplinary Science

I work in collaboration with students and colleagues in an attempt to understand the puzzles of interdisciplinary science. Currently my main focus is understanding the anomalous behavior of liquid water in bulk, nanoconfined, and biological environments. I have also worked on a range of other topics in complex systems, such as quantifying correlations among the constituents of the Alzheimer brain, quantifying fluctuations in noncoding and coding DNA sequences, and interbeat intervals of the healthy and diseased heart.

Selected Publications:

“Catastrophic Cascade of Failures in Interdependent Networks,” S. V. Buldyrev, R. Parshani, G. Paul, H. E. Stanley, and S. Havlin, Nature 464, 1025-1028 (2010). Accompanied by “News & Views” article “The Fragility of Interdependency,” by A. Vespignani on pp. 984-985. Featured in the newsstory “When Networks Net-work,” by Elizabeth Quill, Science News 182[6], 18 (22 Sepember 2012), available at http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/343939.

“The Relationship between Liquid, Supercooled and Glassy Water,” O. Mishima and H. E. Stanley, Nature 396, 329–335 (1998).

“Scaling Behaviour in the Dynamics of an Eco-nomic Index,” R. N. Mantegna and H. E. Stanley, Nature 376, 46–49 (1995).

“Phase Behavior of Metastable Water,” P. H. Poole, F. Sciortino, U. Essmann, and H. E. Stanley, Nature 360, 324-328 (1992).

“Long-Range Correlations in Nucleotide Sequences,” C. K. Peng, S. Buldyrev, A. Goldberger, S. Havlin, F. Sciortino, M. Simons, and H. E. Stanley, Nature 356, 168–171 (1992).

For a full list of publications, please see the attached CV

Honors/Awards:

  • Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • Foreign Member, Academia Brasileira de Ciencias (Brazilia n Academy of Sciences)
  • Honorary Member, Hungarian Physical Society
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
  • Senior Award, European Complex Systems Society, 2014
  • Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, Am. Phys. Soc., 2008
  • Boltzmann Medal, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), 2004
  • Teresiana Medal in Complex Systems Research, Institute for Advanced Studies, Univ. Pavia, 2004
  • Nicholson Medal, American Physical Society, 2003
  • Distinguished Teacher–Scholar Prize, 2001. Awarded by the Director of the National Science Foundation.
  • David Turnbull Prize, Materials Research Society, 1998.
  • Floyd K. Richtmyer Prize, AAPT, 1997
  • Zenith Fellow Award of the Alzheimer Association(shared with D. B. Teplow), 2005
  • Memory Ride Prize for Alzheimer research(shared with B. T. Hyman), 2001
  • Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book of 1971
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society

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