Dr. Themistoklis Sapsis

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Biography

Themistoklis P. Sapsis is the William Koch Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the quantification and prediction of extreme events in nonlinear systems, employing techniques like reduced-order stochastic modeling of turbulent flows. Sapsis is also known for his work on targeted energy transfer in mechanical systems and studying the Lagrangian mixing properties of finite-size particles in fluid flows. His contributions are significant to the fields of mechanical ocean engineering and have broad implications in understanding complex fluid dynamics and system behaviors under extreme conditions.

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