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Professor Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis develops computational strategies to model and analyze physical engineered systems, with a particular emphasis on continuum mechanics. His research incorporates a cyber-enabled statistical discovery mindset, focusing on uncertainty quantification and multi-scale phenomena. His main themes include identifying and modeling stochastic aspects of mechanical systems through data assimilation and efficient procedures to analyze designs in the presence of uncertainties. He has previously held academic positions at the University of Innsbruck, Cornell University, and Heriot-Watt University, as well as a role as a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He completed his undergraduate studies at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and received his PhD from Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. He has received multiple awards including the Fellowship from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld and the Top Teaching Trophy from Munich School of Engineering during several years.