Petros Koumoutsakos
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Petros Koumoutsakos, Greek citizen, was born in 1963 in Gythion, Laconia in Greece. From 1981 to 1986 he studied at the National Technical University of Athens and received his diploma in shipbuilding and mechanical engineering. In 1987, he earned a master's degree in shipbuilding from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, Pasadene), where he received his master's degree in aviation in 1988 and the PhD in aviation and applied mathematics in 1992. From 1992 to 1994 he spent NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Parallel Supercomputing at Caltech. Since 1994 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) at NASA Ames / Stanford University. From September 1997 to June 2000 he was assistant professor in numerical fluid dynamics at the ETH Zurich. Since October 1999 he is a member of the Center for Computational Astrobiology at NASA / Ames.
Research Interest
His areas of research include particle methods, machine learning, biomimetics, biologically inspired computing and the application of these methods to engineering and life science issues.
