The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2011 Laureate

Demetrios Christodoulou was born in 1951 in Athens, Greece.  He is currently Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the ETH, Zurich in Switzerland.  He received his MA in Physics in 1970 and PhD in Physics in 1971 from Princeton University. He was Professor of Mathematics at Syracuse University (1985 – 1987), the Courant Institute (1988 – 1992) and the Princeton University (1992 – 2001). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and European Academy of Sciences.

The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2011 is awarded in equal shares to Demetrios Christodoulou and Richard S Hamilton for their highly innovative works on nonlinear partial differential equations in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry and their applications to general relativity and topology.