Education/Affiliations:

Assistant Professor
The Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
(2010)

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
(2009-2010)

Research Fellow
Center for International Development
Harvard University
(2008-2010)

Graduate School
(PhD in Physics)
Notre Dame
(2004-2008)

Undergraduate
(Licenciatura en Fisica)
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC)
(1998-2003)

Bio:

César A. Hidalgo is the Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career Development Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory, Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and a faculty associate at Harvard's University Center for International Development. Before joining MIT, César worked as an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Research Fellow at Harvard's Center for International Development. Dr Hidalgo's work focuses on improving the understanding of systems using and developing concepts of complexity, evolution and network science. His areas of application include (i) economic development, where he has pioneered the use of networks to quantify the productive structure of countries and its evolution, (ii) systems biology where he has published work on disease co-morbidity and genetic regulation, and (iii), social systems, where he has worked on human mobility and social network analysis using mobile phone data. Dr. Hidalgo is also a graphic art enthusiast and has published and exposed artwork that uses data collected originally for scientific purposes. César A. Hidalgo holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor in Physics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

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Timeline:

I was born in Santiago de Chile, December 22nd 1979.

In 1998 I entered the Physics program at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. I graduated on 2003. My undergraduate thesis advisor was Francisco Claro PhD.

On august 2004 I entered the Physics PhD program at the University of Notre Dame and joined the Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) directed by Laszlo Barabasi.

As a member of CCNR and a Notre Dame grad student, I worked at the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute from Harvard University, between September 2005 and July 2006.

On the Fall of 2007 the CCNR moved to Northeastern University, yet I remained a Notre Dame student andI finished working on my dissertation from Boston. I defended my dissertation at Notre Dame on July 2008. Laszlo Barabasi was my PhD Thesis advisor.

In September 2008 I joined the Center for International Development at Harvard University as a Research Fellow.

In September 2009, I was appointed Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

In August 2010, I joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory as an Assistant Professor in Media Arts and Science.

A list of my publications is available here.
You can also see some of my artwork here.
My CV can be downloaded from here.

Awards:

-Center for Research Computing award for Computational Sciences and Visualization (2008)

-Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award for Excellence in Teaching. Kaneb Center, Notre Dame (2007)

-Selected as an outstanding teaching assistant by the American Association of Physics Teachers (2007)

-Nominated for best student paper at the APS March meeting (2007)

- Hellen Kellogg Institute Supplemental Award. Notre Dame, IN (2004-2008)

-Appeared on Marqui's Who is Who in the world. (2006-2008)

-Companionship Award. British High School. Santiago Chile (1995)