Emeritus Professor Dimitrios Christodoulou was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Crete
October 12, 2023 2024-09-04 16:34Emeritus Professor Dimitrios Christodoulou was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Crete
Emeritus Professor Dimitrios Christodoulou was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Crete
The University of Crete organized on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, in the Amphitheater “N. Petridis” at the University Campus in Heraklion, the Ceremony of Appointment as Honorary Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, of the School of Sciences and Technology, of the Emeritus Professor of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), Mr. Dimitrios Christodoulou.
The ceremony began with greetings from the Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs, Lifelong Learning, International Relations, and Extroversion Professor Georgios Kossioris, the Dean of the School of Sciences and Technology Professor Emmanouil Stratakis, and the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Professor Alkis Tersenov. This was followed by a presentation of the personality and work of the honoree by the Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and holder of the Lowndean Chair of Astronomy and Geometry at the University of Cambridge, Mr. Michalis Dafermos. The ceremony concluded with a speech by the Honoree on the topic: “Differential equations in their historical evolution.”
Dimitrios Christodoulou was born in Athens in 1951. He studied physics at Princeton University and received his doctorate in 1971. He then turned to mathematics and became a Professor of Mathematics, first (1985-1987) at Syracuse University in New York, then (1988-1992) at the Courant Institute of New York University, and from 1992-2001 at Princeton University, a position he held until his move to the Polytechnic of Zurich in 2001. There he served as Professor of Mathematics and Physics until 2017, and since then he has been an Emeritus Professor. He has been honored with the MacArthur Award in Mathematics and Physics (1993), the Bocher Prize of the American Mathematical Society (1999), the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Science (2011), and the Henri Poincaré Prize of the International Union of Mathematical Physics (2021). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the Academia Europaea.
