Petros Koumoutsakos
Professorship for Computational Science
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETHZ
Address: CLT F 12, Clausiusstrasse 33, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 632 52 58 - FAX: +41 44 632 17 03
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Publications: Google Scholar Profile - ISI Researcher ID
Honors/Awards: Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2012), the American Physical Society (2012), the University of Tokyo (2009), Millikan Fellow at the California Institute of Technology (2011-2014). Member of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (2012-present).
Editorial Boards: Journal of Computational Physics, Computational Science and Discovery, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics.
Teaching: Fluid Mechanics, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, High Performance Computing, Uncertainty Quantification. Please see also An Interview about education in Computational Science
Short Bio: Born June 19, 1963, schooled by my grandfather and the elementary and high school in Gytheio, Mani, Greece. Studies in Naval Architecture (Diploma 1986, National Technical University of Athens and Master's 1987, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Master's in Aeronautics (1988) and PhD in Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics (1992) from the California Institute of Technology. NSF Postdoctoral fellow (1992-1994, Center for Research on Parallel Computation ) and research associate (1994-1997) with the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) at NASA Ames/Stanford University. Assistant professor (1997-2000, Institute of Fluid Dynamics) in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, at ETHZ. Founding Director of the ETHZ Computational Laboratory (2000 - 2007, CoLab). Full professor of Computational Science (Department of Computer Science 2000-2011 and Mechanical and Process Engineering, 2012-present) at ETHZ.