Demetrios Christodoulou

Demetrios Christodoulou
Demetrios Christodoulou
	Christodoulou in 1982
Born	19 October 1951; Athens, Greece
Citizenship	Greece; United States;
Alma mater	Princeton University
Known for	stability of Minkowski space; gravitational memory effect; naked singularities; formation of black holes; formation of shock waves;
Awards	Otto Hahn Medal (1981); MacArthur Fellows Award (1993); Bôcher Memorial Prize (1999); Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001); Tomalla Foundation Prize (2008); Shaw Prize (2011); Member of US National Academy of Sciences (2012); Marcel Grossmann Award (2021); ; Henri Poincaré Prize (2021) ;
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics; physics;
Institutions	University of Athens; Princeton University; Caltech; CERN; Syracuse University; Courant Institute; ETH Zurich; University of Crete;
Doctoral advisor	John Archibald Wheeler
Doctoral students	Lydia Bieri; Mihalis Dafermos; Gilbert Weinstein;

Demetrios Christodoulou (Greek: Δημήτριος Χριστοδούλου; born 19 October 1951) is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in the framework of general relativity. Christodoulou is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow.