Koumoutsakos, Petros, Prof. Dr.

Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory

Professor Petros Koumoutsakos holds the Chair of Computational Science in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETHZ.

He received his Diploma (1986, National Technical University of Athens) and Master's (1987, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) in Naval Architecture. He received a Master's (1988) and PhD in Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics (1992) from the California Institute of Technology. He was an NSF fellow in parallel computing (1992-1994, Center for Research on Parallel Computation ) at the California Institute of Technology and a research associate (1994-1997) with the Center for Turbulence Research at NASA Ames/Stanford University. He was an assistant professor (1997-2000, Institute of Fluid Dynamics) at ETHZ and the founding director of the ETHZ Computational Laboratory (2000 - 2007, CoLab). He was full professor of Computational Science between 2000-2011 in the Department of Computer Science at ETHZ.

Professor Koumoutsakos serves as an Associate Editor in the Journal of Computational Physics, the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, the International Journal of Computing in Science and Mathematics and the Computational Science and Discovery.