Dr. Roger Guimerà, a research assistant professor in our group, was offered a position as a senior research professor in ICREA. This is a tenured position corresponding to full professor which will be associated with the Department of Chemical Engineering at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in Tarragona, Catalonia. ICREA, an ...
Amaral receives secondary appointment with Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has granted Luís Amaral a secondary appointment in the Department of Medicine. The appointment, at the rank of Associate Professor of Medicine, is effective June 1st, 2009, to August 31st, 2011.
Nicolas Pelaez joins the Amaral and Carthew Labs for his thesis work.
Graduate student Nicolas Pelaez (IBiS) program joins the Amaral and Carthew Labs for his thesis work.
Are you a day laborer or an e-mailaholic?
You might have had your suspicions, but now they are confirmed. Many e-mailers do indeed fall into two main categories: the day laborers, who only e-mail at work from 9 to 6, and the e-mailaholics, who constantly check their e-mail during all waking hours of the day. That’s the result ...
Software improves P2P privacy by hiding in the crowd
Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have identified a new “guilt-by-association” threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper to accurately classify groups of users with similar download behavior. To thwart this threat, they have released publicly available, open ...
Amaral receives appointment with Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Luís Amaral, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, has been appointed an Early Career Scientist by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). With his expertise in computer-based modeling and HHMI support, Amaral wants to build the “Google ...
Rational or random? Professor models how people send e-mails
In the last 10 years, e-mail has gone from a novelty to a necessity. What was once a pastime is now an essential form of communication, with many people opening their inboxes to find dozens of e-mails waiting. But how do people respond to those e-mails? Do they act rationally, ...
Sales-Pardo appointed Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Marta Sales-Pardo was appointed as a Research Assistant Professor at the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS), the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Guimera appointed Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Roger Guimerà was appointed as a Research Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University.
Amaral named Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research
Luis Amaral, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been named a Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research by the W.M. Keck Foundation. He is one of five recipients of the award nationally and will receive up to $1 million over 5 years. The award, which was made to ...