Matjaz Perc

About

Matjaž Perc received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maribor in 2006. He is currently Professor of physics at the University of Maribor, staff researcher at the Community Healthcare Center Dr. Adolf Drolc Maribor, Adjunct Professor at Kyung Hee University and Korea University, and External faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. He is a member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and among top 1% most cited physicists according to 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Clarivate Analytics data. He is also the 2015 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics from the German Physical Society, and the 2017 USERN Laureate. In 2018 he received the Zois Award, which is the highest national research award in Slovenia. In 2019 he became Fellow of the American Physical Society. Since 2021 he is also Vice-Dean of Natural Sciences at the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Employment

• University of Maribor Professor of Physics
  2002 - Present

Education

• University of Maribor PhD in Physics
  2002 - 2007

Projects & Funding

• Phase transitions towards coordination in multilayer networks (basic research project) Slovenian Research Agency
  2020 - 2023
• Quantum localization in chaotic systems (basic research project) Slovenian Research Agency
  2018 - 2021
• Investigations of cell-cell communications in multi cellular groups composed of different Bacillus isolates (basic research project) Slovenian Research Agency
  2018 - 2021
• Phase transitions towards cooperation in coupled populations (basic research project) Slovenian Research Agency
  2016 - 2018
• Physics of evolutionary processes (basic research project) Slovenian Research Agency
  2011 - 2014
• Physics of conflicts and their resolution (Postdoctoral research project) Slovenian Research Agency
  2009 - 2011
• Stochasticity and chaos as potent promoters of cooperation and order in physical systems and society (postdoctoral research project) Slovenian Research Agency
  2007 - 2008

Publications (660)

• Adaptive epidemic dynamics on hypergraphs with group-level immunization and rewiring
  Applied Mathematical Modelling 2027 DOI: 10.1016/J.APM.2026.117130
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• A discrete-time benchmark for assessing critical slowing down indicators
  Journal of Physics: Complexity 2026 DOI: 10.1088/2632-072X/AE5384
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• A stable exceptional point reorganizes relaxation before the Hopf bifurcation to a breathing chimera
  Nonlinear Dynamics 2026 DOI: 10.1007/S11071-026-13128-W
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• A stochastic dengue transmission model: Noise-induced extinction and optimal control
  Applied Mathematics and Computation 2026 DOI: 10.1016/J.AMC.2026.130156
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• AI-Augmented Cyber-Social Dynamics and Collective Decision-Making: A Survey
  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 2026 DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2026.3735697
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• Anomaly detection in directed dynamic graphs using Hermitian Laplacian spectral analysis
  Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 2026 DOI: 10.1016/J.CHAOS.2026.118458
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• Bipartite structure and dynamics of political corruption networks
  Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 2026 DOI: 10.1016/J.PHYSA.2025.131216
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• Charting the life of Billboard hits through memory, turnover, and predictability
  Royal Society Open Science 2026 DOI: 10.1098/RSOS.261312
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• Cooperation versus social welfare
  Physics of Life Reviews 2026 DOI: 10.1016/J.PLREV.2025.11.006
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• Diffusion-induced instabilities promote cooperation in eco-evolutionary networks
  Sourav Roy, Md Sayeed Anwar, Timotéo Carletti

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  • Dibakar Ghosh
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2530131123
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• Digital Epidemiology With Awareness-Based Event-Triggered Migration in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
  IEEE Transactions on Networking 2026 DOI: 10.1109/TON.2026.3688173
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• Dynamical Analysis of the Fractional-Order Chialvo Neuron Map: Synchronization, Multistability, and Extreme Events
  CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.32604/CMES.2026.087072
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• Dynamics of Q-Learning in Networked Stochastic Games
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 2026 DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2025.3641365
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• Effects of stochastic games on evolutionary dynamics in structured populations
  Communications Physics 2026 DOI: 10.1038/S42005-026-02536-4
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• Efficiency and robustness of eigenvector methods for cluster detection in weighted networks
  Deivasundari Muthukumar, Atiyeh Bayani, Fahimeh Nazarimehr

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  • Sajad Jafari
  • Karthikeyan Rajagopal
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  Journal of Complex Networks 2026 DOI: 10.1093/COMNET/CNAF056
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• Efficient driver-node selection for pinning control via second-order perturbations
  Chaos 2026 DOI: 10.1063/5.0351619
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• Ensemble adaptive libraries and inner-product sparse regression for robust nonlinear dynamics discovery
  2026 DOI: 10.1016/J.AMC.2025.129839
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• Entropy-based complexity of EEG microstates differentiates ADHD comorbidity in children with SeLECTS
  2026 DOI: 10.1016/J.CHAOS.2026.118210
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• Evolution of global healthcare trade networks: Structural fracture detection, topological responses, and cross-commodity dependency restructuring
  Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 2026 DOI: 10.1016/J.CHAOS.2025.117474
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• Evolutionary Dynamics of Reputation-Based Voluntary Prisoner's Dilemma Games
  IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 2026 DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2026.3739747
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