Work Experience
| Position | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Associate Research Scientist | Northeastern University | 2025–Present |
| Part-time Lecturer | Northeastern University | 2021–Present |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | Northeastern University | 2021–2025 |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | Colegio de México | 2020–2021 |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica | 2019–2020 |
| Data Scientist | Telcel | 2018–2019 |
Education
| Degree | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| PhD Applied Mathematics | Complex Systems Institute, ENS-Lyon & Université de Grenoble, France | 2014–2018 |
| MS Applied Mathematics | Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico | 2012–2014 |
| BS Economics | Université de Toulouse 1 Capitole, France | 2008–2012 |
PhD Thesis: Bio-mathematical aspects of the plasticity of protein folding
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Liu Y, Dorantes-Gilardi R, Han L, Barabási AL (2025). The effect of high-impact venues on career development. Nature (In Review).
- Liu Y, Elekes A, Lu J, Dorantes-Gilardi R, Barabási AL (2025). Unequal Scientific Recognition in the Age of LLMs. EMNLP 2025.
- Aldana A, Sebek M, Ispirova G, Dorantes-Gilardi R, et al. (2025). NetMedPy: A Python package for Large-Scale Network Medicine Screening. Bioinformatics.
- Dorantes-Gilardi R, Ivey K, Costa L, Matty R, Cho K, Gaziano JM, Barabási AL (2025). Quantifying the impact of biobanks and cohort studies. PNAS.
- Dorantes-Gilardi R, Terrazas-Santamaría D, Ramirez-Álvarez A (2023). Is there a differentiated gender effect of collaboration with super-cited authors? Evidence from early-career economists. Scientometrics.
- Dorantes-Gilardi R, Terrazas-Santamaría D, Ramirez-Álvarez A (2022). The role of highly intercited papers on scientific impact: the Mexican case. Applied Network Science.
- Sotomayor-Vivas C, Hernández-Lemus E, Dorantes-Gilardi R (2022). Linking protein structural and functional change to mutation using amino acid networks. PLOS One.
- Ye W, Dorantes-Gilardi R, Xiang Z, Aron L (2021). COVID-19 Twitter Communication of Major Societal Stakeholders. International Journal of Communication.
- Pacini L, Dorantes-Gilardi R, Vuillon L, Lesieur C (2021). Mapping Function from Dynamics: Future Challenges for Network-Based Models of Protein Structures. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences.
- Dorantes-Gilardi R, García-Cortés D, Hernandez-Lemus E, Espinal-Enríquez J (2021). Genes in the k-core underpin functional features of breast cancer. Scientific Reports.
- Dorantes-Gilardi R, García-Cortés D, Hernández-Ramos H, Espinal-Enríquez J (2020). Eight years of homicide evolution in Monterrey, Mexico: a network approach. Scientific Reports.
- Dorantes-Gilardi R, García-Cortés D, Hernandez-Lemus E, Espinal-Enríquez J (2020). Multilayer approach reveals organizational principles disrupted in breast cancer co-expression networks. Applied Network Science.
- Dorantes-Gilardi R, Bourgeat L, Vuillon L, Lesieur C (2018). In proteins, the structural responses of a position to mutation rely on the Goldilocks principle. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys..
- Achoch M, Dorantes-Gilardi R, Wymant C, Feverati G, Salamatian K, Vuillon L, Lesieur C (2016). Protein structural robustness to mutations: an in silico investigation. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys..
Conference Proceedings
- Liu Y, Elekes A, Lu J, Dorantes-Gilardi R, Barabási AL (2025). Unequal Scientific Recognition in the Age of LLMs. EMNLP 2025.
- Dorantes-Gilardi R, Vuillon L, Lesieur C (2017). Perturbation of amino acid networks: A statistical study of the defects introduced in proteins by mutations. 6th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications.
Book
- Ortega RY, Nieto F, Dorantes Gilardi R, Sotomayor CI (2022). Strategic Polarization in Social Media. El Colegio de Mexico AC.
Contributed Research Grants
| Grant | Amount | Funder | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspirational Cohorts and the Science of Purpose | $1,818,030 | Templeton Foundation (#63562) | 2025–2028 |
| Evaluating the Impact of Biomedical Tools and Methods | $995,572 | NIH NIGMS (#1R01GM158813-01) | 2024–2028 |
PI: Albert-László Barabási — Role: Wrote grant and Project Lead (both)
Awards & Honors
- Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Mexico), Level 1 — Area 1: Interdisciplinary and Applied Mathematics (2022–Present)
- Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Mexico), Candidate — Area 1: Interdisciplinary and Applied Mathematics (2020–2022)
Selected Talks
| Talk | Venue | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Quantifying the Impact of Biobanks and Cohort Studies | NSW Health Statewide Biobank Seminar, Australia (virtual) | Aug 2025 |
| Evaluating the Impact of Biomedical Tools and Methods | ICSSI 2024, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC | Jul 2024 |
| Quantifying biobank impact | NetSci-X 2023, Buenos Aires | Feb 2023 |
| Quantifying biobank impact | Complex Networks 2022, Palermo, Italy | Nov 2022 |
| Quantifying biobank impact | ICSSI 2022, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC | Jun 2022 |
Professional Service
- Grant Reviewer & Panelist: NSF (Science of Science, Human Networks & Data Science), 2023–2025
- Journal Reviewer: Nature Communications, PNAS, npj Systems Biology, Bioinformatics Advances, PLOS One, 2019–2025
Skills
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Programming | Python (Advanced), SQL (Advanced: Google BigQuery), R, Bash, HTML/CSS, Git |
| Software Contribution | NetMedPy, networkx, biographs, biopython |
| Languages | Spanish (Native), English (Fluent/C2), French (Fluent/C1) |