Petros Koumoutsakos

Petros Koumoutsakos is an esteemed expert in Applied Mathematics, currently serving as Area Chair at Harvard University since August 2021 and as a Professor at ETH Zurich since September 1997. Petros holds the position of International Member at the National Academy of Engineering since February 2018 and has been recognized as a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at the Technical University Munich since April 2017. Responsibilities have also included roles such as Fellow at Collegium Helveticum (September 2016 - November 2020), Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (September 2016 - August 2017), and Wallace Visiting Professor at MIT (September 2016 - July 2017). Past experience includes serving as Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for PRACE (February 2016 - February 2017), Director of Computational Science Zurich (September 2014 - September 2016), and researcher at NASA Ames Research Center from 1994 to 1997. Academic qualifications include a PhD and Master’s degrees from Caltech, a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, a Master’s from the University of Michigan, and a diploma from the National Technical University of Athens.