Efthimios Kaxiras

Efthimios Kaxiras studied at MIT. He is now the John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics at Harvard University. He served as visiting faculty at universities in Switzerland and Greece and founded the Institute of Applied Computational Science at Harvard to promote graduate study and research in computational science. Kaxiras is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a chartered physicist and fellow of the Institute of Physics. He has coauthored textbooks in condensed-matter physics and math for scientists and engineers. His research is in computational physics and materials science with an emphasis on multiscale simulations.