Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor
Ph.D., Unicamp (Brazil), 2002
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2009
Weinberg Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, 2009
Northwestern-Argonne Early Career Investigator Award for Energy Research, 2010
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2011
Professor Motter's research is focused on complex systems and nonlinear phenomena, primarily in the realm of chaos, fractals, statistical physics, complex networks, and biological physics.
Motter Research Page
Selected Publications
- S.P. Cornelius, J.S. Lee, and A.E. Motter,
Dispensability of Escherichia coli latent pathways,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 3124 (2011).
doi:10.1073/pnas.1009772108 - S. Sahasrabudhe and A.E. Motter,
Rescuing ecosystems from extinction cascades through compensatory perturbations,
Nature Communications 2:170 doi:10.1038/ncomms1163 (2011).
doi:10.1038/ncomms1163, PDF, Supplementary Information
- K. Gelfert and A.E. Motter,
(Non)Invariance of dynamical quantities for orbit equivalent flows,
Communications in Mathematical Physics, 300, 411 (2010).
doi:10.1007/s00220-010-1120-x - T. Nishikawa and A.E. Motter,
Network synchronization landscape reveals compensatory structures, quantization, and the positive effect of negative interactions,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 10342 (2010).
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0912444107 - A.E. Motter,
Improved network performance via antagonism: From synthetic rescues to
multi-drug combinations,
BioEssays 32, 236 (2010) - Problems and Paradigms.
doi:10.1002/bies.200900128
- A.E. Motter,
Spontaneous synchrony breaking,
Nature Physics 6, 164 (2010).
doi:10.1038/nphys1609 -
J. Andreasen, H. Cao, J. Wiersig, and A.E. Motter,
Marginally unstable periodic orbits in semiclassical mushroom billiards,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 154101 (2009).
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.154101 - COVER
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E.G. Altmann, J.B. Pierrehumbert, and A.E. Motter,
Beyond word frequency: Bursts, lulls, and scaling in the temporal distributions of words,
PLoS One 4(11), e7678 (2009).
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007678
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A.E. Motter and A. Saa,
Relativistic invariance of Lyapunov exponents in bounded and unbounded systems,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 184101 (2009).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.184101
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T. Nishikawa, N. Gulbahce, and A.E. Motter,
Spontaneous reaction silencing in metabolic optimization,
PLoS Comput. Biol. 4(12), e1000236 (2008).
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000236
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R.D. Malmgren, D.B. Stouffer, A.E. Motter, and L.A.N. Amaral,
A Poissonian explanation for heavy tails in e-mail communication,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 18153 (2008).
doi:10.1073/pnas.0800332105
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G. Bianconi, N. Gulbahce, and A.E. Motter,
Local structure of directed networks,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 118701 (2008).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.118701
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A.E. Motter, N. Gulbahce, E. Almaas, and A.-L. Barabasi,
Predicting synthetic rescues in metabolic networks,
Mol. Syst. Biol. 4, 168 (2008).
doi:10.1038/msb.2008.1 - EMBO and Nature Publishing Group
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R.D. Vilela and A.E. Motter,
Can aerosols be trapped in open flows?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 264101 (2007).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.264101 - ANIMATION
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D.-H. Kim and A.E. Motter,
Ensemble averageability in network spectra,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 248701 (2007).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.248701
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C.S. Zhou, A.E. Motter, and J. Kurths,
Universality in the synchronization of weighted random networks,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034101 (2006).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.034101
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A.E. Motter, C.S. Zhou, and J. Kurths,
Enhancing complex-network synchronization,
Europhys. Lett. 69, 334 (2005).
doi: 10.1209/epl/i2004-10365-4
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A.E. Motter,
Cascade control and defense in complex networks,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 098701 (2004).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.098701
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A.E. Motter,
Relativistic chaos is coordinate invariant,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 231101 (2003).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.231101
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T. Nishikawa, A.E. Motter, Y.-C. Lai, and F.C. Hoppensteadt,
Heterogeneity in oscillator networks: are smaller worlds easier to synchronize?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 014101 (2003).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.014101
