M. Ángeles Serrano

M. Ángeles Serrano is an ICREA Research Professor in the Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona (UB), and External Faculty at CSH Vienna. She holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UB and a master's in mathematics for finance from the CRM. After four years in IT consulting and finance, she returned to academia in 2004 to study complex networks. She was a postdoctoral researcher at IU (USA), EPFL (Switzerland), and the IFISC Institute (Spain) until 2009, when she was awarded a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. M. Ángeles is a Fellow of the APS and a Fellow of the Network Science Society. She has received the APS Outstanding Referee Award and a James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award for the Study of Complex Systems. She serves on the Boards of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division and the Network Science Society. She is a founding member of Complexitat and a founding promoter member of the UB Institute of Complex Systems UBICS.

She leads the Mapping Complexity Lab at UB, where they use networks to model and predict the structure, function, evolution, and adaptive capabilities of complex systems. Theyare pioneers in network geometry and create geometric models and maps of real networks in latent hyperbolic space to reveal their multiscale nature, nested architecture, dimensionality, and hidden symmetries. Applications span a wide range of real-world systems—from brain connectivity to social networks and AI—characterized using massive datasets.