Thomas C. Katsouleas

Thomas C. Katsouleas is an American academic administrator. In February of 2019, he was named the 16th president of the University of Connecticut, and officially began his term in August.[1][2]

Thomas C. Katsouleas
16th President of the University of Connecticut
Assumed office
August 2019
Preceded bySusan Herbst
Personal details
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (B.A., Ph.D.)

Education

Katsouleas began his undergraduate education at Santa Monica Community College and received his bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1979, earning his Ph.D. in physics from UCLA in 1984.[3]

Career

After graduating from UCLA, Katsouleas taught there for seven years before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California in 1991 as an associate professor of physics. In 1997, he was named a full professor. Katsouleas was vice provost for information services at USC and also was an associate dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.[4] Katsouleas also served as provost at the University of Virginia beginning in 2015, and as the dean of the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering.[5] In 2019 he became the president of the University of Connecticut; the Greek Archbishop Elpidophoros attended the ceremony.[6]

Katsouleas is an inventor and was awarded the Plasma Science Achievement Award by the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 2001. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 publications.[7]

He founded the NAE Grand Challenges Summit in Durham in 2009.[8] In 2010, Katsouleas started Duke's Katsouleas NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program, which challenges students to use their knowledge to work on challenges posed by the National Academy of Engineering.[9]

References
  1. Brone, Abigail. "Thomas C. Katsouleas takes over as UConn president". courant.com.
  2. "UVA's Tom Katsouleas Named Next President of the University of Connecticut". UVA Today. February 5, 2019.
  3. "Dr. Thomas Katsouleas: What you need to know". The Daily Campus.
  4. "Duke Picks Southern Cal Professor as Pratt School of Engineering Dean". March 6, 2008.
  5. Eaton-Robb, Pat (February 5, 2019). "Virginia provost Katsouleas appointed UConn president". AP NEWS.
  6. Kokkinidis, Tasos (2019-10-07). "Greek Scientist Thomas Katsouleas Installed as President of the University of Connecticut | USA.GreekReporter.com". Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  7. "Thomas C. Katsouleas". NAE Website.
  8. "Thomas C. Katsouleas". NAE Website. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  9. Rhodes, Charlotte (February 12, 2019). "Is Katsouleas the Sustainability-Minded President Students Asked For? | Office of Sustainability".
Academic offices
Preceded by
Susan Herbst		 16th President of the University of Connecticut
2019 - Present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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