RESEARCHED WITH AUTUMN
ANAntony N. Beris
Arthur B. Metzner Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware; IMO 1975 Greece (2nd prize); 2025 Bingham Medalist
University of Delaware · academic
IMO 1975 (Greece) 2nd-prize Medalist, Burgas2025 Bingham Medal, The Society Of Rheology's Highest HonorArthur B. Metzner Professor Of Chemical Engineering, University Of DelawareCo-author, Thermodynamics Of Flowing Systems With Internal Microstructure (Oxford UP, 1994)MIT Ph.D. 1985; NTUA Diploma 1980 (top Of Class)
Details
Company siteudel.edu
UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology
non-Newtonian fluid mechanicsrheologycomputational fluid dynamicsnonequilibrium thermodynamicsviscoelastic flow modelinghigh performance computingthixotropypolymer processingcomplex fluidsviscoelastic turbulencepolymer drag reductionblood rheology
Notes
- Elected 2025 Bingham Medalist 'for exceptional theoretical and computational contributions to the field of complex fluid dynamics and rheology' - the Society of Rheology's highest honor, capping a 40-year career.Oct 2025
- Identity confirmed: the UD CV explicitly lists 'Second Prize in International Mathematical Competition (XVII Mathematical Olympiad) at Burgas, Bulgaria, 1975', tying the Delaware professor to the IMO 1975 Greek contestant.Jul 1975
- Trained 24 graduate students and 10 postdocs whose alumni now hold chairs/professorships (K.D. Housiadas, Math chair at Aegean University; V.G. Mavrantzas at U. Patras/ETH Zurich), a substantial academic lineage in Greek/European chemical engineering.Apr 2025
- Career trajectory is a single-institution climb: MIT Ph.D. 1985 (advisors R.C. Armstrong and R.A. Brown) straight into a UD assistant professorship, rising to Metzner Professor in 2002 - suggesting UD built its complex-fluids group around him rather than recruiting him laterally.2002
- Co-authored the research monograph Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems with Internal Microstructure (with B.J. Edwards), Oxford University Press, 1994.1994
- Publication record as of April 2025: 163 refereed journal articles, h-index 51 with 10,838 citations (Google Scholar) and 41/5,953 (Web of Science); 192 invited presentations.Apr 2025
- Four decades at one school, a chair named for rheology pioneer Arthur B. Metzner, and the field's top medal in the same year (2025) suggest he occupies a foundational, institution-defining role in complex-fluids research at Delaware.2025
- Landmark 1997 Physics of Fluids paper (Sureshkumar, Beris, Handler) on direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow of a polymer solution helped pioneer viscoelastic turbulence and polymer drag-reduction modeling.1997
- At IMO 1975 (Burgas) he scored 33 points (problems 6,7,7,4,6,3), ranked 27th, for Greece.Jul 1975
- Editorial board member of Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (2009-present) and Journal of Rheology (2025-2028), plus Entropy - a gatekeeper role across the field's core journals.2025
- Awarded the Willem Prins Award Lecture at IWNET 2015 in The Netherlands and the 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.Jul 2015
- Holds a 5% joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering at UD (2014-present) alongside his CBE chair, pointing to applied blood-rheology work.2014
Experience
Assistant Professor at University of Delaware
Jan 1985 - Jan 1990
Associate Professor at University of Delaware
Jan 1990 - Jan 1994
Professor at University of Delaware
Jan 1994 - Jan 2002
Arthur B. Metzner Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Delaware
Jan 2002 - Present
Sabbatical, NAVY-ASEE Fellowship at Naval Research Laboratory
Jan 1992 - Jan 1993
Sabbatical, Fulbright Fellowship at Universite catholique de Louvain
Jan 1999 - Jan 2000
Sabbatical semester at University of Patras
Jan 2006 - Present
Joint (5%) faculty appointment, Biomedical Engineering at University of Delaware
Jan 2014 - Present
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Diploma, Chemical Engineering
Projects
Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems with Internal Microstructure
Achievements2025 Bingham Medal, Society of Rheology's highest honor · Second Prize, XVII International Mathematical Olympiad 1975 representing Greece · Chrisovergi's Award 1980, highest grade in NTUA graduating class · Fellow of the Society of Rheology (2016), American Physical Society (2021) and AAAS (1999) · Co-author of Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems with Internal Microstructure (Oxford University Press, 1994) · h-index 51 with 10,838 citations (Google Scholar, April 2025)
Talks
Willem Prins Award Lecture, IWNET 2015, Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
Press
Awards2025 Bingham Medal (Society of Rheology) · Fellow, Society of Rheology (2016) · Fellow, American Physical Society (2021) · Fellow, AAAS (1999) · Willem Prins Award Lecture (2015) · Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2018) · Second Prize, XVII International Mathematical Olympiad (Burgas, Bulgaria, 1975)
Competition record
Greece · IMO