Dani Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology, and Psychiatry. They are also an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. Bassett is most well-known for blending neural and systems engineering to identify fundamental mechanisms of cognition and disease in human brain networks. They have received multiple prestigious awards, a few of which include the American Psychological Association's “Rising Star” (2012), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2014), MacArthur Fellow Genius Grant (2014), National Science Foundation CAREER (2016), Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 (2016), Lagrange Prize in Complex Systems Science (2017), Erdos-Renyi Prize in Network Science (2018), and American Physical Society Fellow (2021). In addition, they have been named one of Web of Science's most Highly Cited Researchers for 3 years running, with more than 300 peer-reviewed publications garnering over 33,000 citations.