Amaral is the Erastus O. Haven Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University, and a Professor of Medicine, Molecular Biosciences, and Physics and Astronomy. Amaral received a K-25 Career award from NIGMS, was named to the 2006 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research by the W. M. Keck Foundation and appointed an Early Career Scientist by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2009 to 2015. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, and the Network Science Society.
Amaral has mentored 25+ graduate students and 20+ postdoctoral fellows. He has also held significant mentoring responsibilities for dozens of undergraduate and high-school students who completed internships in his lab. Amaral’s research has been published in leading scientific journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS, Nature Physics, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Machine Intelligence, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, PLOS Biology, and eLife. These results reported in the publications have been featured in numerous media sources, both in the US and abroad.
