From 1971 until 1972 he was a research fellow at Caltech (USA) and at
1972-1973 he was a Professor of Physics at the University of Athens.
During the period of 1973-1983 he held a number of reserch fellowships
at CERN (Switzerland), International Center for Theoretical Physics at
Trieste (Italy), the Max Planck Institute in Munich (Germany) and the
Currant Institute of New York University (USA). From 1983 until 1988 he was an Associate
Professor and subsequently Professor of Mathematics at Syracuse University. From
1988 until 1992 he was a Professor of Mathematics at Courant Institute,
before moving as a Professor at Princeton University, where he remained
until 2001 when he became Professor of Mathematics and Physics at ETH
Zurich (Switzerland). In 2011 he was elected as Honorary Professor at
the Department of Physics of the University of Crete.
Professor Christodoulou has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences. He has received
noumerous awards and distinctions including the 1981 Otto Hahn Medal of
the Max Planck Society, the 1991 Basilis Xanthopoulos Award, the 1993
MacArthur Fellows Award, the 1996 Excellence in the Sciences Award of
the Academy of Athens, the 1999 Bocher Memorial Prize of the American
Mathematical Society, the 2000 Taxiarchis of the Order of Phoenix awarded bt the
President of the Hellenic Republic, the 2006 Aristeio Bodossaki, the
2009 Chaire d’Etat of the College de France and the 2011 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.
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