Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

Biography: Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos received an undergraduate degree from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982 and a PhD from MIT in 1986, both in Chemical Engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford (1986-87) and held faculty positions at Cornell (1987-97) and the University of Maryland (1997-2000). He is currently the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University, where he also served as Department Chair from 2016-2022. He has received numerous honors, including the AIChE AXΣ and Colburn Awards, and the Prausnitz Award in applied chemical thermodynamics. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2004 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. He is the author of more than 350 technical papers and of the undergraduate textbook “Essential Thermodynamics” (2nd Ed., 2026).