SFI External Professor Mason Porter (UCLA) has been named a Fellow of the Network Science Society, an organization that supports an interdisciplinary research community that is dedicated to investigating the phenomena, modeling, and behavior of networks.
Every year, the Network Science Society names up to seven fellows, each recognized for “outstanding and significant contributions to network-science research and to the community of network scientists.” Porter was elected for his notable contributions to network analysis and his dedicated mentorship of early-career researchers.
“I'm very pleased to be recognized by the network-science community, including the fact that my mentoring efforts are mentioned explicitly in the Fellowship citation,” says Porter. “Additionally, on looking at the others in the 2025 cohort, I'm happy to be part of the same cohort as so many great people.”
Porter and the other 2025 Fellows will be honored at a banquet during the NetSci International School and Conference in the Netherlands this June.
Porter joins several SFI researchers as Network Science Society Fellows. Past elections include SFI External Professor Mark Newman (University of Michigan), who was in the inaugural class of Fellows, and External Professor and Science Board Member Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland), who was named President of the Network Science Society in March.
SFI Vice President for Science Jennifer Dunne, Professor Cris Moore, External Professors Raissa M. D'Souza (University of California, Davis), Peter Dodds (University of Vermont), Aaron Clauset (Univeristy of Colorado Boulder), and Tina Eliassi-Rad (Northeastern University and SFI Science Steering Committee), and Science Board member Adilson Motter (Northwestern University) are also Fellows.
See the complete list of Fellows of the Network Science Society.