Katepalli Sreenivasan is a University Professor and the Eugene Kleiner Professor of Innovation at New York University. Prior to coming to NYU, he served from 2003 to 2009 as the director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, for nearly seven years. Earlier, he taught at the University of Maryland for about a year and a half, as Distinguished University Professor, Glenn L. Martin Professor of Engineering and Professor of Physics, and as the Director of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology. Prior to that, Sreenivasan taught at Yale since 1979 as a faculty member in Engineering and Applied Sciences, Physics, and Mathematics.
Sreenivasan’s honors include: the Sigma Xi Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, American Physical Society’s Otto Laporte Memorial Award, the Fluid Dynamics Prize, the Leo Kadanoff Prize and Medal, the Dwight Nicholson Medal for human outreach, the International Prize and Gold Medal in memory of Professors Modesto Panetti and Carlo Ferrari, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Italy, the National Order of Scientific Merit (the highest scientific honor) by the Brazilian Government and the Academy of Sciences, the UNESCO Medal for Promoting International Scientific Cooperation and World Peace from the World Heritage Centre, Florence, Italy, the Melvin Jones Fellow of the Lions Club (for humanitarian service), and the 2009 Nusselt-Reynolds Prize from the Assembly of World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics, the 2009 AAAS award for International Scientific Cooperation, and the G.I. Taylor Medal of the Society of Engineering Sciences, among others. Among the academies to which Sreenivasan has been elected are the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), and the African Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Accademia die Lincei in Italy.
