Kevrekidis to retire and move to Johns Hopkins University

June 13, 2017

Professor Yannis Kevrekidis will retire from the University effective July 1, 2017, with the titles of Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Emeritus. Professor Kevrekidis joined Princeton's chemical engineering faculty in 1986. Research in the Kevrekidis group has focused on the dynamic behavior of chemically reacting systems, and the development of innovative computer-assisted techniques for modeling engineering processes. During his Princeton career, Prof.... Read more about Kevrekidis to retire and move to Johns Hopkins University

UMA Report: "Transport and Reactions Modelling of Nanocarriers for Anti-Tumor Drugs"

January 17, 2017

An article describing the modeling of the transport and reactions of functionalized liposomes (Lip) loaded with Doxorubicin (Dox) within a tumor mass.

Kevrekidis wins Reid Prize

March 3, 2016

Prof. Kevrekidis was selected to receive the 2016 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize. The Prize, consisting of an engraved medal and a monetary award of $10,000, is awarded every year by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) at their Annual Meeting. Kevrekidis was cited for his “pioneering work on the ‘equation-free’ framework for computational...

Kevrekidis named Payatakes Lecturer

January 14, 2016

Prof. Kevrekidis was selected by the University of Houston Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering faculty as the 2016 Payatakes Memorial Lecturer. Alkis Payatakes was a former member of the UH faculty who made seminal contributions to transport phenomena and fluid mechanics focus on porous media, colloidal systems, and biological media. The lecture will be given in April 2016.

Kevrekidis elected as a Corresponding Member to the Academy of Athens

November 4, 2015

Prof. Yannis Kevrekidis was elected as a Corresponding Member by the Parliament of the Academy of Athens on the 29^th October 2015. He is associated with the branch of Chemical Engineering Classroom of Sciences. Click here to see the full announcement on the academy's website (in Greek...

Kevrekidis named as Einstein Visiting Fellow

October 6, 2015

As a Einstein Visiting Fellow, Prof. Kevrekidis has a two year association with all universities in Berlin to support collaborative research. The Einstein Foundation Berlin supports exceptionally talented academics to work in Berlin as international Visiting Fellows with...

Kevrekidis receives Rothschild Visiting Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute

October 6, 2015

Prof. Kevrekidis will participate in the semester-long program Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Biology: Numerical Methods and Applications to be held at the Isaac Newton Mathematical Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge in the Spring of 2016.

The program theme notes that "in the past decades,...

Kevrekidis Named Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at TU Munich

June 3, 2015

Yannis Kevrekidis, Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering and
Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been appointed as a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Munich Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS). Named for Professor Hans Fischer, 1930 Nobel...

Chen GS2, Debenedetti, Kevrekidis, and Stone Recognized for Excellence in Teaching

February 25, 2013

At a lunch and ceremony on February 22, open to the entire School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Princeton Engineering Council (E-Council) and Graduate Engineering Council (GEC) jointly recognized a record-breaking FOUR members of the CBE department for their excellence in teaching during Fall 2012. Professor Yannis Kevrekidis was recognized for his teaching in the graduate-level course CBE 502, “Mathematical...

Rajendran GS4 Receives Grimm Memorial Prize

April 20, 2012

Fourth-year Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. student Karthikeyan Rajendran has been named as one of three 2012 recipients of the Ray Grimm Memorial Prize. Rajendran, who is working with Professor Yannis Kevrekidis, was recognized with the $4,000 prize, “for his...

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