Santa Fe Institute

In March, SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado Boulder) received two notable honors: he was elected a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and named 2026 Distinguished Alumni by the University of New Mexico School of Engineering.

Both honors recognize Clauset’s foundational contributions to network science and computational social science, including his work on the structure and dynamics of complex systems.

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/aaron-clauset-receives-honors-from-aaas-and-university-of-new-mexico

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne has received the 2026 Erdős-Rényi Prize, the top honor for early-career researchers in network science.

“This recognition reflects the deeply collaborative nature of complex systems research,” says Hébert-Dufresne. “The most exciting questions in network science happen at the intersections — between disciplines, between theory and application, and between people with very different perspectives.”

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/laurent-hebert-dufresne-receives-erdos-renyi-prize