Athanassios Spyridon Fokas is a Greek mathematician, known for work in the field of integrable nonlinear partial differential equations.
Education
Fokas earned a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics from Imperial College in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied mathematics from Caltech in 1979. Fokas subsequently attended University of Miami School of Medicine, earning an Doctor of Medicine in 1986.
Career
His dissertation, Invariants, Lie-Backlund Operators and Backlund Transformations, was written under the direction of Paco Lagerstrom. After medical school, Fokas was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clarkson University in 1986. From there, he moved to Imperial College in 1996 to become chair of Applied Mathematics.
He has been a Professor of Mathematics at University of Cambridge and Chair in Nonlinear Mathematical Science since 2002.
Fokas is married to Regina Fokas and they have three children: Alexander, Anastasia, and Ioanna.
Membership
Academy of Athens]
He was elected a Member of the Academy of Athens in 2004 and a professorial fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge in 2005.