Réka Albert (born 2 March 1972[1]) is a Romanian-Hungarian scientist.
She is a distinguished professor of physics and adjunct professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University[2][3] and is noted for the Barabási–Albert model and research into scale-free networks and Boolean modeling of biological systems.
Albert was born in Reghin, a city in Mureș County, located in the historical region of Transylvania, in the north-central part of Romania.
Her work extends to networks in a very general sense, involving for instance investigations on the error tolerance and attack vulnerability of complex networks[4] and its applications to the vulnerability of the North American power grid.
[2][8] In 2016 she was inducted as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.