Yamir Moreno is the elected president of the Network Science Society, and was the president of the Complex Systems Society from 2015 to 2018. He is the director of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), the head of the Complex Systems and Networks Lab (COSNET) and professor of Physics at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Zaragoza.

Yamir is also a principal scientist and area coordinator at the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy and external professor of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. He received the Complex Systems Society’s Senior Scientific Award in 2019 and is a highly cited researcher in the field of Cross-Field 2019 (Web of Science). He was a first-class fellow of the ISI Foundation. He has published more than 225 scientific papers with a total of 35100+ citations and is co-author of the most cited Physics Reports of all time.

His research interests include disease dynamics, diffusion processes, mathematical biology, nonlinear dynamical processes and the structure and dynamics of complex systems.