Rate My Professor Dani Bassett

Leading the Complex Systems Lab, Bassett's research focuses on network neuroscience and complex systems, blending neural engineering, physics, and mathematics to elucidate mechanisms of cognition, behavior, learning, and disease in brain networks. The lab investigates dynamic network changes, topological influences on signal propagation, and applications to physical systems like granular matter and biological systems including brain connectivity in development, epilepsy, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and autism. Bassett has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications garnering over 40,000 citations, including recent papers on browsing behaviors and gender-education links (Science Advances, 2024), musical structure in Bach (Physical Review Research, 2024), and chaos quantification via machine learning (Physical Review Letters, 2024). Bassett co-authored the book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection with Perry Zurn (MIT Press, 2022). Prestigious honors encompass the American Psychological Association Rising Star (2012), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2014), MacArthur Fellowship (2014), IEEE EMBS Early Achievement Award (2015), NSF CAREER (2016), Lagrange Prize (2017), Erdős–Rényi Prize (2018), OHBM Young Investigator (2020), AIMBE Fellow (2020), APS Fellow (2021), multiple years as Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, and the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award (2023). Research is funded by NSF, NIH, ARO, ONR, DoD, Sloan, MacArthur, and Paul G. Allen Foundations.