We are excited to welcome a new faculty member, Yong-Yeol "YY" Ahn, to our center. Prior to joining IU, YY was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University and a visiting researcher at the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, working with Albert-László Barabási. YY has a PhD in Physics from KAIST in Korea. His work explores  the structure and dynamics of complex systems, spanning from molecules to society.

YY has been selected by the Association of Korean Physicists in America as one of the two winners of the annual Outstanding Young Researcher Award. And to top it off, his paper on Flavor network and the principles of food pairing was the most downloaded of all Nature.com in December 2011. Congratulations!