Plamen Ch. Ivanov

Plamen Ch. Ivanov is a Research Professor and Director of the Keck Laboratory for Network Physiology at Boston University's School of Science. He pioneered the interdisciplinary field of Network Physiology, focusing on dynamic interactions between organ systems to understand health and disease. His work integrates statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, and network theory to analyze physiological signals and model emergent systems behavior.

Education: M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics (Sofia University), Ph.D. in Cellular Biophysics (Boston University). Research interests center on systems physiology, cardiac-respiratory dynamics, sleep regulation, and network-based approaches to aging and exercise physiology. His lab developed novel methods for analyzing time-varying organ system interactions, contributing to the Human Physiolome initiative.

Key contributions include discovering basic laws of physiological regulation, identifying critical dynamics in brain rhythms across sleep states, and revealing age-related breakdown in cardio-muscular networks. Articles focus on network physiology applications in sleep medicine, exercise science, and neurodegenerative disorders.

• Major Awards: $1M W.M. Keck Foundation Award (2015)
• Editorial Roles: Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Network Physiology
• Founding Director: International Summer Institute on Network Physiology (ISINP)
• NIH/ONR/BSF-funded research

Labs/Teams: Leads the Keck Lab, collaborates internationally on PhysioNet data sharing platform. Active in machine learning approaches for physiological signal analysis and network modeling.