Raissa D’Souza, Professor in the University of California, Davis departments of Computer Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been appointed Lead Editor of Physical Review Research. She joins fellow Lead Editors Nicola Spaldin and Jian-Wei Pan on the editorial leadership team of APS’s new open access, multidisciplinary journal, which is now open for submissions.
D’Souza is widely recognised for her interdisciplinary research in network science and complex systems, with many of her papers appearing in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review E. Her expertise spans the fields of statistical physics, theoretical computer science, and applied math with a focus on phase transitions and cascading failures.
In addition to her roles at UC Davis, D’Souza is External Professor and Science Board member at the Santa Fe Institute. She is a Fellow of APS, a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow, and was elected Fellow of the Network Science Society following terms as President (2015-2018) and Outgoing President (2018-2019). Her service also includes participation in the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems, organisation of many scientific meetings, and membership on the editorial board of a diverse array of international journals focused on physics and mathematics, as well as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary areas of research.
She has received numerous honors, including: the inaugural Euler Prize of the Network Science Society; the Test of Time Award from the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), recognizing highly influential papers published 10 years ago in ESEC or FSE; the UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Research Award; and the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a trusted global partner for digital content transformation solutions - Abstracting & Indexing (A&I), Knowledge Modeling (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), and Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction.
