Yannís G. Kevrekidis

In 2020, Kevrekidis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

In 2017, Kevrekidis was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, class I (Mathematical and Physical Sciences), Section 5 (Engineering Sciences and Technologies). His election citation states:

Until June 30, 2017, he was the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering with the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University.

Kevrekidis has also participated in numerous fellowships including the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship of the Einstein Foundation and Zuse Institute (2016–2018), the Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship of the Institute for Advanced Study in Munich (2015-2018), and the Microsoft Fellowship of the Isaac Newton Institute (2013).

In 2010, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers awarded him the Richard H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering.

In 2003 he was awarded the J.D. Crawford Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for outstanding research in nonlinear science.

Kevrekidis joined Princeton University in 1986 as an assistant professor of engineering. He was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1994. In 2007, he became the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Engineering, a position which he held until 2017. At the same time, he was an associated faculty member in the Princeton Department of Mathematics and senior faculty member in the program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. In 2017, he became the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Urology.

Kevrekidis completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1985-1986) in the Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division.

Yannis was born and grew up in Athens, Greece. He earned a diploma in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1981. He subsequently earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1986. At the same time, he worked towards a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1987, under the supervision of Lanny D. Schmidt. His thesis was titled, "On the Dynamics of Chemical Reactions and Reactors". He published eight journal articles with his advisors including: