Katepalli Sreenivasan#

• 2009 - present University Professor; Professor of Physics; Professor of Mathematics (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), in Tandon School of Engineering as Eugene Kleiner Chair for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering
• 2009 - 2018 Dean of Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, Executive Vice Provost, New York University; Provost and President, former Brooklyn Institute of New York (at various times between 2009 - 2018)
• 2003 - 2009 Director and Abdus Salam Professor, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
• 2002 - 2009 Director, Institute of Physical Sciences and Technology (2002 - 2003); Glenn L. Martin Professor of Engineering; Professor of Physics; Distinguished University Professor (2002 - 2009); Campus Professor (from 2009); all at University of Maryland
• 1979 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering and Applied Science (1979 - 1982); Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (1982 - 1985); Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (1985 - 1988); Harold W. Cheel Professor of Mechanical Engineering (1988 - 2002); Andrew W. Mellon Professor (1991-1996); Professor of Physics (1989-2002); Professor of Applied Physics (1993 - 2002); Professor of Mathematics (2000-2002); Member, Center for Computational Ecology (1995 - 2000); Chairman, Mechanical Engineering Department (1987 - 1992); Acting Chairman, Council of Engineering (equivalent to the Dean of Engineering),1989; all at Yale University
• 1978 Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
• 1977 Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

• Statistical physics
• Low-temperature physics
• Turbulence
• Applied mathematics
• Fluid dynamics

• 1983 Humboldt Fellow (2024, Senior Scistist Award)
• 1985 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 1989 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1995 Otto Laporte Award, American Physical Society
• 1997 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1998 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1999 elected to the US National Academy of Engineering
• 2003 elected to the Indian Academy of Sciences
• 2006 International Prize and Gold Medal in memory of Professors Modesto Panetti and Carlo Ferrari, Academia delle Scienze di Torino, Italy
• 2007 UNESCO Medal for Promoting International Scientific Cooperation and World Peace, the World Heritage Centre, Florence, Italy
• 2007 elected to the Indian National Science Academy
• 2007 elected to the US National Academy of Sciences
• 2008 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach, American Physical Society
• 2009 elected to the Indian National Engineering Academy
• 2013 elected to the Accademia die Lincei, Rome
• 2020 The Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society
• 2020 G.I. Taylor Medal, Society for Engineering Sciences
• 2020 von Karman Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers
• 2022 The Leo P. Kadanoff Prize, American Physical Society
• 2022 ASME Gold Medal (highest honor of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering)

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