Hassan Aref
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Dr. Hassan Aref is known for having developed the concept of Chaotic Advection in fluid motion. Although it was initally received with skepticism, chaotic advection is now understood by the scientific community to be an important realm of fluid behavior. Aref received the 2000 Otto Laporte Award from the American Physical Society for this and other work related to fluid mechanics [1]. He is currently a professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech College of Engineering, of which he was Dean until 2003. He has also been a faculty member in the Theoretic and Applied Mechanics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California at San Diego, and Brown University. Aref is also a current co-editor of Advances in Applied Mechanics. Other notable positions held by Dr. Aref include being an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and a founding editor of Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator.
Hassan Aref was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He received his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1975. Aref received his doctorate degree also in Physics from Cornell University in 1980, where he also worked as a post doctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. His first faculty position began in 1980 at Brown University where he was an assistant professor. Aref acquired U.S. citizenship in 1998.
[edit] Honors and Awards
- 2003 Reynolds Metals Professor, Virginia Tech
- 2001 Fellow, World Innovation Foundation
- 2000 Otto Laporte Award, American Physical Society “For his pioneering contributions to the study of chaotic motion in fluids, scientific computation, and vortex dynamics, and most notably for the development of the concept of chaotic advection.”
- 2000 Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
- 1994 Toshiba Keio Lecture, Keio University, Japan
- 1991 Westinghouse Distinguished Lectureship, The University of Michigan
- 1991 Lecturer, Midwest Mechanics Seminar
- 1988 Fellow of American Physical Society “For the elucidation of chaotic motion in few-vortex problems and particle advection, and for the development of numerical methods based on many-vortex interactions.”
- 1988 Stanley Corrsin Lectureship, The Johns Hopkins University
- 1986 Foreign Member, Danish Centre for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
- 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
- 1975 NATO Fellowship; Cornell Graduate Fellowship, 1975-1980
