Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey ~Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering. Internationally renowned authority in the molecular-based computer simulation of complex fluids. Creative application of statistical mechanics has helped define the frontiers of knowledge in the computational study of complex fluids. Invented the Gibbs ensemble method, which is now the standard technique for the direct simulation of phase coexistence properties of fluids. Work was reprinted in a special issue of Molecular Physics as a Defining Paper in Molecular Physics, 1958-2001. With Sanat Kumar and Igal Szleifer, invented a powerful method for the calculation of the free energy of polymers. Made contributions to the computational study of criticality in ionic systems, self-assembly in surfactant and micellar systems, and the systematic discretization of continuum systems for their efficient simulation on a lattice. Member, National Academy of Engineering. Honors include the Prausnitz Award in Applied Chemical Thermodynamics, the Colburn Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.~