Demetrios Christodoulou#
| Membership Number: | 4272 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.ethz.ch/~dchristo |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 ETH Zürich, Emeritus Professor
- 2001 - 2017 ETH Zürich, Professor of Mathematics and Physics
- 1992 - 2001 Princeton University, Professor of Mathematics
- 1988 - 1992 Courant Institute, Professor of Mathematics
- 1985 - 1987 Syracuse University, Professor of Mathematics
- 1983 - 1985 Syracuse University, Associate Professor of Physics
- 1981 - 1983 Courant Institute, Visiting Member
- 1976 - 1981 Max Planck Institute, Munich, Humboldt Fellow
- 1974 - 1976 International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste
- 1973 - 1974 CERN, Geneva, Visiting Scientist
- 1972 - 1973 University of Athens, Greece, Professor of Physics
- 1971 - 1972 California Institute of Technology, Research Fellow
Fields of Scholarship
- General relativity
- Partial differential equations
- Fluid dynamics
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Henri Poincare Prize
- 2012 Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Shaw Prize
- 2008 Tomalla Prize
- 2001 Election to the American Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Honorary Doctorate, Brown University
- 1999 Bocher Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society
- 1993 MacArthur Fellow
- 1998 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1981 Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society
