Professor Petros Koumoutsakos studied at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he received his Diploma in Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering in 1986. He obtained a master's degree in Naval Architecture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1987. He continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology where he obtained another master's degree in Aeronautics in 1988, followed by a PhD in Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics in 1992, and a two year US National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in parallel super-computing. Between 1994-1997 he was a research scientist at the Center for Turbulence Research and the Center for Computational Astrobiology at NASA Ames/Stanford University. In 1997 Petros Koumoutsakos joined the faculty at ETH Zurich as Assistant Professor in Computational Fluid Dynamics before becoming Full Professor of Computational Science in July 2000.