Adilson E. Motter (born January 1, 1974, in Brazil) is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics at Northwestern University, where he has helped develop the concept of synthetic rescue in network biology as well as methods to control the nonlinear dynamics of complex networks.

He and his collaborators have established conditions for the synchronization of power grids [2][3] and other complex networks.

[4][5] Together with his former student Z. Nicolaou, he designed a class of mechanical metamaterials that exhibit longitudinal negative compressibility.

In 2014 he was identified among the 30 most promising scientists under the age of 40 born in Latin America, according to a survey conducted jointly by the magazine Qué Pasa and the blog LatinAmericanScience.org.

In 2022, Motter received the Senior Scientific Award of the Complex Systems Society.