Petros Koumoutsakos

Institute of Computational Sciences
ETH Zurich

Petros Koumoutsakos is Professor of Computational Science at ETH Zurich and he serves as the Director of the ETHZ Computational Laboratory. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens (1981-1986) and received his Diploma in Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering. He received a master's degree (1987) in Naval Architecture from the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor. He continued his graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology where he received a master's degree in Aeronautics (1988) and a PhD in Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics (1992). During 1992-1994 he was an National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in parallel supercomputing at Caltech. Since 1994 he has been a senior research associate and maintains an active affiliation with the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) at NASA Ames/Stanford University. From September 1997 to June 2000 he had been an assistant professor in Computational Fluid Dynamics at ETH Zurich. His research activities are in the areas of particle methods and biologically inspired computation and the application of these techniques to problems of interest in the areas of Engineering and Life Sciences.

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