Biographical Sketch
T.S. Fokas has a B.Sc. in Aeronautics from Imperial College (1975), a Ph.D. in Appied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology (1979) and an M.D. from the University of Miami, School of Medicine (1986). In 2002 he was appointed to the newly inaugurated Chair in Nonlinear Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. His awards include the Naylor Prize, the Aristeion Prize in Sciences of the Academy of Athens and the Aristeion Prize of the Bodossaki Foundation. He has received honourary degrees from five Universities and also has been decorated as the Commander of the Order of Phoenix by the President of the Hellenic Republic. He is the youngest member of the Academy of Athens and the first ever Applied mathematician to be elected a full member to the Academy. He is a Professorial Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. ISI Web of Science includes A.S. Fokas in the list of the most highly cited researchers in the field of Mathematics.