Petros Koumoutsakos
Biography
Education
1993: California Institute of Technology, Ph. D., Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics
1988: California Institute of Technology M.Sc., Aeronautics
1987: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, M.Sc., Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
1986: National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Diploma, Naval Architecture
Professional Career
2000- : ETH Zürich, Professorship for Computational Science
2001-2007: ETH Zürich, Computational Laboratory, Director
1997-2000: ETH Zürich, Assistant Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics
1996-2001: NASA Ames, Senior Research Associate
1994-1995: Stanford University, Center for Turbulence Research, Post-doc Fellow
1993-1994: California Institute of Technology, Center for Parallel Computing, Post-doc Fellow
Visiting Positions
2016-2017: MIT, Wallace Visiting Professor
2016-2017: Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University, Fellow
2009, 2012-2015: California Institute of Technology, Millikan Visiting Professor
2014: UT Austin, Tinsley Oden Visiting Fellow (1 month)
2008: Technical University of Denmark, Visiting Professor (6 months)
2005: University of Tokyo, Visiting Professor (6 months)
Administration (selected)
2015- : Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) – Scientific Committee Chairman
2014- : Zurich Graduate School in Computational Science – Founder and co-Director
2014- : MATHEON Research Center, TU Berlin, Germany – Scientific Advisory Board,
2012-2014 : Committé Stratégique pour le Calcul Intensif (CSCI), Government of France- Member
2011- : ETHZ NVIDIA CUDA Research Center – Director
2007-2010: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany – Advisory Board Member
2001-2007: ETH Zürich, Computational Laboratory -Founder and Director
2000-2005: ETH Zürich, Institute of Computational Science (ICoS) – Founder and Director