Aaron Clauset received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico and a BS in Physics from Haverford College, and, prior to coming to Colorado, was an Omidyar Fellow at the prestigious Santa Fe Institute.

Clauset is an internationally recognized expert on network science, data science, and complex systems. He received the 2016 Erdos-Renyi Prize in Network Science, and his research has appeared in prestigious scientific venues like Nature, Science, PNAS, JACM, STOC, AAAI, SIAM Review, and Physical Review Letters. His work has also been covered in the popular press by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Discover Magazine, New Scientist, Miller-McCune, the Boston Globe and The Guardian.