Athanassios Fokas - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

BSc in Aeronautics, Imperial College, UK, June 1975; PhD in Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA, June 1979 (supervisor: P. A. Lagerstrom); MD, School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA, June 1986.

Employment-Awards

In 2010 Fokas was appointed (in the presence of the President of the Hellenic Republic) Ambassador of Hellenism, Greece; in 2009 was made an honorary citizen of Delphi, Greece; in April 2019 received a Life Achievement Award from the Hellenic Mathematical Association (in recent years, only Dimitis Christodoulou has received this honor); in 2014 was honored by the Hellenic Medical Society of UK, in 2015 by the European Musculoskeletal Oncology Society , and in 2016 by the Greek-American Medical Society.

Citations

In April of 2022, Clare Hall announced that, according to the ranking based on the h-index calculated by Research.com , Fokas was ranked first among all mathematicians of the two mathematics departments of the University of Cambridge, namely, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the Department of Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Statistics.

In 2020, his paper 'Rogue waves of the nonlocal Davey-Stewartson I equation', published in Nonlinearity in 2018, received the ‘Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing Top Cited Paper Award’, as one of the most cited articles within the period of 2018 to 2020 published across the entire IOP Publishing journal portfolio, consisting of 50 prestigious journals.

External Support

Fokas had the distinction of being funded throughout his academic life in USA, 1982 - 1995, by the Mathematics Section of the National Science Foundation of USA. In addition, during this period he was also supported by the Mathematics Division of the Office of the Naval Research of USA, 1982 - 1988, and by the Mathematics Division of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research of USA, 1987 - 1995. Similarly, he was funded from the time of his first appointment in UK until his retirement from the University of Cambridge, first by SERC (1994 - 1997) and then by EPSRC. In addition, during this period he was also supported by: the European Community, EC-TMR, 1998 - 2000, 2000 - 2002, 2002 - 2004, 2006 - 2009 and 2005 - 2008 ; the Royal Society, 2000 and 2003; MRC 2009. Fokas was also a co-investigator in the 2.5 million pounds grant “Mathematical Imaging in Healthcare”, 2016 - 2020.