Demetrios christodoulou biography of william

Greek mathematician and physicist (born 1951)

Demetrios Christodoulou (Greek: Δημήτριος Χριστοδούλου; born 19 October 1951^[1]) is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in the framework of general relativity.

Christodoulou is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow.

Early life

Christodoulou was born in Athens and received his doctorate in physics from Princeton University in 1971 under the direction of John Archibald Wheeler.^[2] After temporary positions at Caltech, CERN, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics, he became professor of mathematics, first at Syracuse University, then at the Courant Institute, and at Princeton University, before taking up his last position as professor of mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.^[1] He is emeritus professor since January 20