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Demetrios Christodoulou is a mathematician-physicist who works in the field of general relativity.
His work involves a high level of rigorous mathematical analysis with geometric and physical intuition. His recent work has been the study of global properties of solutions to Einstein’s equations of general relativity. Christodoulou is co-author with MacArthur Fellow, Sergiu Klainerman, of The Global Nonlinear Stability of the Minkowski Space (1993) and author of The Action Principle and Partial Differential Equations (2000).
Biography
Christodoulou is a professor of mathematics and physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor of mathematics at Princeton University (1992-2001), the Courant Institute of New York University (1988-1992), Syracuse University (1983-87), and the University of Athens, Greece (1972-73). He was also a visiting scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva (1973-1974). His numerous articles have appeared in such publications as Annals of Mathematics, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, and the Duke Mathematical Journal.
Christodoulou received an M.A. (1970) and a Ph.D (1971) from Princeton University.
Last updated January 1, 2005
Published on July 1, 1993
