Themis Sapsis

Education

2006-2011	Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis: Dynamically orthogonal field equations for stochastic fluid flows and particle dynamics Advisors: P. Lermusiaux and G. Haller
2001-2005	Diploma in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering National Technical University of Athens – Greece Thesis: Stochastic Analysis with Applications to Dynamical Systems Advisor: G. Athanassoulis

Appointments

2017-	Doherty Associate Professor in Ocean Utilization (tenured on 2019) Department of Mechanical Engineering - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016-2017	Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013-2016	ABS Career Development Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011-2013	Assistant Research Scientist Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences - New York University Academic mentor: Andrew Majda

Editorial Boards

2017-	Associate Editor	SIAM/ASA Journal of Uncertainty Quantification
2017-	Associate Editor	Springer-Nature Nonlinear Dynamics
2014-	Associate Editor	International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering
2017	Guest Editor	ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Awards

2021	Bodossaki Award on Basic Sciences: Mathematics
2020	Verisk AI Faculty Research Award
2020	Inaugural awardee of the MathWorks Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship, School of Engineering, MIT
2020	ASME Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Best Paper Award
2017	Doherty Associate Professor Chair in Ocean Utilization, MIT
2016	Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - Young Investigator Award
2015	Office of Naval Research (ONR) - Young Investigator Award
2015	Army Research Office (ARO) - Young Investigator Award
2015	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Ocean Sciences
2013	Inaugural recipient of the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Chair, MIT
2011	NSF Travel Award, Foundations of Computational Mathematics – Computational Dynamics Workshop, Budapest
2009	Best paper award for young scientists, 2nd Chaotic Modelling and Simulation Conference (Chaos), Crete
2009	Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union to attend CF SICON (Stability, Identification and Control), Rome
2009	Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union to attend TC4 SICON Event, Lyon
2007-2010	Onassis Foundation Fellowship
2006-2008	MIT Presidential Fellowship 'George and Marie Vergottis'
2006	RINA (Royal Institution of Naval Architects) - GSCC Award for best diploma thesis
2005	Medal of the National Technical University of Athens for ranking first in class of 2005
2001-2005	Fellowship from the State Fellowship Foundation of Greece
2001-2005	Fellowship from the Technical Chamber of Greece

Teaching

2.122 Stochastic Systems

2.003/1.053 Dynamics and Control I

2.081/16.230 Plates and Shells: Static and Dynamic Analysis

2.700/2.701 Principles of Naval Architecture

S18, S19, S20, S21

F15, F16, F17, F20, F21

S14, S15, S16, S17

F13, F14

Scientific & Professional Societies

SIAM, ASME, APS, ISOPE, SNAME