Ioannis Kevrekidis

Class of 2025-26

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Applied Mathematics and Statistics; and Biomedical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering
Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

Ioannis Kevrekidis has transformed how scientists use computers to model and study complex/multiscale systems such as the dynamic behavior, instabilities and patterns found in physical, chemical and biological processes.

His work applies to a variety of fields, but he is best known for pioneering an approach for equation-free computation. His recent research focuses on multiscale computations and computer-assisted modeling of complex dynamical systems.

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Kevrekidis is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute, and the Academy of Athens. He has been a senior Hans Fischer Fellow at the Technische Universität München Institute for Advanced Study and an Einstein Visiting Fellow at FU/Zuse Institute Berlin. He is a recipient of the Allan P. Colburn Award, the R.H. Wilhelm Award and the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; the J.D. Crawford Prize and the W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; a Senior Humboldt prize; and a career Teaching Award from the School of Engineering at Princeton.

He has also been a Gutzwiller Fellow for the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, a Packard Fellow and a Rothschild Distinguished Visitor at the Newton Institute at Cambridge University.

He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications.

Kevrekidis will collaborate with faculty and students in the College of Medicine, the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences.