Lazaros Gallos

Lazaros Gallos is a Research Professor and an Associate Director at DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. He is the current director of the long-running summer DIMACS REU program – Research Experiences for Undergraduates – on Computer Science and Mathematics. He received his PhD at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in Computational Physics. His research interests cover a broad range of problems in complex systems and interdisciplinary applications. His main contributions are on complex network dynamics and information spreading with emphasis on behavior in social networks, while in recent years he has been working on AI assurance. He has established many inter-disciplinary collaborations with colleagues from psychology, sociology, neuroscience, mathematical biology, and other fields. He is member of the editorial board of the Nature Scientific Reports (he received the 2026 Editorial Contribution Award), PLOS One, and Entropy journals. He has also been an Editor for the highly selective journal Physical Review X. He is the recipient of the lifetime award for Outstanding Referee from the American Physical Society, and has been recognized four times as a European Physical Society Distinguished Referee.