About

* This profile page is created/updated for the 1st IAHR Online Forum (July 5-7, 2021) * Fotis Sotiropoulos serves as Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Stony Brook University. Effective August 1, 2021, he will become the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of Virginia Commonwealth University. Before joining Stony Brook University, he was the James L. Record Professor of Civil Engineering, Director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, and Director of the EOLOS wind energy research consortium at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2006-2015). Prior to that, he was on the faculty of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a joint appointment in the G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (1995-2005). His research focuses on simulation-based engineering science for tackling complex, societally relevant fluid mechanics problems in river hydraulics and morphodynamics, renewable energy systems, and human health applications. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed journal papers and book chapters and his research results have been featured on the cover of several prestigious journals. He has been awarded the 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Hydrology Days Borland Lecture in Hydraulics, the 2017 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a 2014 distinguished lecturer of the Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies at Tel Aviv University, and a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. Sotiropoulos is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and has twice won the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Gallery of Fluid Motion (2009, 2011).

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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

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Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

simulation-based engineering science for fluid mechanics, problems in renewable energy, environmental, biological, and cardiovascular applications

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