#  Biographical sketch 

 



EFTHIMIOS KAXIRAS

Lyman Laboratory 339, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138

Phone: 617-5957977, Fax: 617-4952545

Education:

*Massachusetts Institute of Technology*

Ph.D. in Physics 1987

B.S. in Physics 1981

*National Technical University of Athens, Greece* 1977-78

Electrical Engineering (transferred to MIT)

Appointments :

 *John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics* 2010-

 *Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics* 1998-09

 *Associate Professor of Physics and Applied Physics*  1995-98

 *Assistant Professor of Physics and Applied Physics* 1991-95

 Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

 Harvard University

 *Director -* Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard University 2010-

 *Professor of Materials Science* 2009-10

 Laboratory for Multiscale Modeling of Materials

 Institute of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)

 *Director -* Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University 2008-09

 *Director -* Biomedical Research Institute, FORTH Ioannina, Greece  2002-04

 *Acting Department Chair and Visiting Professor* 2002-04

 Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Ioannina

 *Associate Director* 2001-02

 Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University

 *Consulting Research Physicist* 1989-91

 Complex Systems Theory Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington

 *Postdoctoral Research Associate* 1987-89

 IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights

Honors :

Ÿ IBM Research Division Award (1991) *“For contributions to the development of a new* *mechanism for Si/Ge heteroepitaxy”*

ŸIBM Predoctoral Fellowship (1985-87)

ŸChartered Physicist and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (London), since 1999

ŸFellow of the American Physical Society, since 2003

Professional Activities :

ŸMember of: American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi - Scientific Research Society, Institute of Physics, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

ŸEditorial Board of : *Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering*, *Computational Science and Engineering, SIAM Book Series*, *Journal of Computer Aided Materials Design*, *Surface Review and Letters*, *International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering*, *Computing in Science and Engineering*

Organization of Scientific Meetings (Co-Organizer) :

Ÿ *International Forum on Clean Energy*, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China (August 2010).

Ÿ IC4N-2008*“1st International Conference from Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials to Nanodevices and Nanosystems”,* Halkidiki, Greece (June 2008).

Ÿ Conference on*“Synergy Between Experiment and Computation in Nanoscale Science”*, National Nanoscale Infrastructure Network, Harvard Univ. (May 2006).

Ÿ Focus Session on *“Steps, Growth and Smoothing”*, American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore (March 2006).

Ÿ Focus Session on *“Multiscale Simulations in Materials Science”*, SIMU- European Physical Society Workshop on Bridging the Scales, Genova, Italy (August 2004).

Ÿ Workshop on *“Multiscale Modeling and Simulation”*, sponsored by ETH-Z Computational Laboratory, Lugano, Switzerland (August 2003).

Ÿ Workshop on *“Multiscale Modeling of Materials: Methods, Algorithms and Unsolved Problems”*, sponsored by Centre Europeen pour le Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire (CECAM), Heraklion, Greece (July 2001).

Ÿ Symposium on *“New Advances in Materials Prediction”*, Fall 1999 Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Boston.

Ÿ Symposium on *“Multiscale Modeling of Materials”*, Fall 1998 Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Boston.

Ÿ Workshop on *“Multiscale Modeling and Grand Challenge Problems in Materials Research”*, CECAM, Lyon, France (October 1997).

Ÿ Workshop on *“Quantitative Methods in Materials Research”*, Institute of Theoretical Physics, U.C. Santa Barbara (January - June 1997).

Ÿ Symposium on *“Epitaxial Growth: Principles and Applications”*, Spring 1997 Meeting of the Materials Research Society, San Francisco.

Ÿ Symposium on *“Materials Theory, Simulations and Parallel Algorithms”*, Fall 1995 Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Boston.

Research Interests:

The research of Prof. Kaxiras encompasses computational materials and condensed matter physics, and has covered a wide range of topics; examples include: the electronic properties of crystalline and amorphous solids and their dependence on the atomic structure; the physics and chemistry of covalently bonded nano-clusters; growth and catalytic behavior of nano-structured surfaces and interfaces; the nature of electronic states in biomolecules and the function of enzymes; the microscopic origin of brittle or ductile response of solids; the physics of dislocations in metallic and covalent solids and their interaction with chemical impurities; blood flow dynamics in realistic arterial geometries, incorporating cell motion and the effect on endothelial shear stress. A core theme is a multiscale point of view, which aims to realistically capture the behavior of complex physical systems by starting at a fundamental level, with a first-principles quantum mechanical description, and reaching to macroscopic scales.