UMass Amherst Professor Dimitrios Maroudas Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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AMHERST, Mass. – Dimitrios Maroudas, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

A member of the UMass Amherst faculty since 2002, Maroudas was recognized for his “innovative work on multiscale modeling of complex systems with emphasis on establishing processing-structure-properties-function relations in bulk, thin-film, and nanostructured materials.”

Maroudas serves as director of the materials engineering program in the UMass Amherst College of Engineering. His research focuses on multi-scale modeling of complex systems, computational materials science, electronic materials and nanostructures, and materials for renewable energy technologies.

His honors include a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, a Faculty Research Fellowship from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, an R.G. Rinker AIChE Outstanding Teaching Award, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and an Outstanding Senior Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at UMass Amherst.

Maroudas serves on the editorial advisory boards of the journals Surface Science and Materials Research Express.

He earned a diploma in chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and a Ph.D. in the same field from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. This year, 416 members were awarded the honor because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. New fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin on Feb. 16 during the 2019 AAAS annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

This year’s fellows will be formally announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science on
Nov. 29.

The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science as well as Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, a digital, open-access journal, Science Advances, Science Immunology, and Science Robotics. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes nearly 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals.