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Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos is the Susan Dod Brown Professor in Chemical Biological Engineering at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and earned his Diploma in Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982. His research focuses on the development and application of theoretical computer simulation techniques to investigate the properties of fluids and materials. This includes molecular-based models that explicitly represent the main interactions among microscopic constituents of a system. His methodologies, such as Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo, provide critical insights into the coexistence properties of fluids, using data from large-scale numerical calculations. He has received numerous awards, including the AIChE’s Alpha Chi Sigma Award in 2024 and has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His work is at the intersection of chemical engineering and computational science, emphasizing novel approaches to simulate ions and water in aqueous electrolytes, as well as exploring the properties of disordered proteins in the context of biological function. He has published extensively on these topics, contributing significantly to the understanding of complex materials and their processing.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Leading the Chemical Biological Engineering department and focusing on advanced research in computational techniques.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.