Today, actually, is a very special day for me, because it is my birthday.
And so, thanks to all of you for joining the party.
But every time you throw a party, there's someone there to spoil it.
Right?
And I'm a physicist, and this time I brought another physicist along to do so.
His name is Albert Einstein -- also Albert -- and he's the one who said that the person who has not made his great contributions to science by the age of 30 will never do so.
Now, you don't need to check Wikipedia that I'm beyond 30.
So, effectively, what he is telling me, and us, is that when it comes to my science, I'm deadwood.
Well, luckily, I had my share of luck within my career.
Around age 28, I became very interested in networks, and a few years later, we managed to publish a few key papers that reported the discovery of scale-free networks and really gave birth to a new discipline that we call network science today.
