Alessandro Vespignani’s life is consumed by connections.
He’ll be the first to tell you they define every aspect of our lives, from the neurons in human brains to the diseases spreading across the globe. But not everyone has more than 100 researchers to study those connections.
To do that work required Vespignani, the Sternberg Distinguished Family Professor at Northeastern University, to build something unlike anything that exists in higher education: a true global network of trailblazing researchers that collaborates across disciplines and continents to understand and answer some of the most pressing global issues. Leveraging Northeastern’s interconnected global network of 14 campuses, the Network Science Institute, or NetSI, has evolved from a Boston-based initiative into one spread across four cities and two continents. NetSI’s global presence grants it the kind of reach that most research institutes can only dream of, opening the doors for research that pushes boundaries in everything from political science to artificial intelligence.
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