Constantine Dafermos

Professor Dafermos received a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1964) and a Ph.D. in Mechanics from the Johns Hopkins University (1967). He has taught at Cornell University (1968-1971) and at Brown University (1971-2022), where he is currently the Alumni-Alumnae University Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics. He is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, a Correspondent Member of the Academy of Athens and an Honorary Professor of Academia Sinica; also a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has been awarded the Wiener Prize, by the American Mathematical Society, the W.T. and Idalia Prize, by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Cataldo and Angiola Agostinelli Prize, by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Prize of the Society of the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics, and the Galileo Medal of the city of Padua.