Name: Doros Theodorou, PhD
Professional Titles: Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA); Director, Computational Materials Science & Engineering Group (CoMSE); Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering and Academy of Athens
Geographic Base: Athens, Greece
Short Bio:
Doros Theodorou is a world-renowned chemical engineer and computational materials scientist, recognized for his pioneering work in the development of advanced computational methods to predict and understand the properties of materials based on their chemical composition. Born in Athens in 1957, he earned his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982, followed by an M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1985) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He began his academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, rising from Assistant Professor (1986) to Full Professor (1994) in Chemical Engineering while serving as a collaborating faculty member at the Center for Advanced Materials, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. In 1995, he returned to Greece as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras and later joined NTUA in 2002 as Professor and Director of the Computational Materials Science & Engineering Group (CoMSE). He has also contributed as a collaborating researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR “Demokritos,” and has represented Greece in the European Union Researcher Mobility Program (1995–2004).
Professor Theodorou’s research has produced more than 210 peer-reviewed publications, 33 book chapters, and multiple authoritative texts, including Simulation Methods for Polymers, Diffusion in Nanoporous Solids, and Multiscale Modelling of Polymers. His work has been cited over 15,700 times (h-index = 64), reflecting his global impact on materials science and chemical engineering.
Among his numerous honors, he has received the U.S. National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988–1992), the Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Award in Chemistry (1996), the AIChE Danckwerts Lectureship (2006), the John M. Prausnitz Institute Lecture Award (2016), the European Materials Medal of the Federation of European Materials Societies (2017), the DSM Lifetime Achievement Award in Materials
Science (2018), the Guggenheim Medal (2018), and the FOMMS Medal (2022). He has been a member of the Academy of Athens since 2024. In 2015, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest international distinctions in engineering.
Through his extraordinary contributions to computational modeling, materials science, and chemical engineering, Professor Theodorou has cemented his reputation as a global leader shaping the next generation of materials research and interdisciplinary scientific innovation
