Professorship recognizes accomplishments

Antony N. Beris, Arthur B. Metzner Professor of Chemical Engineering, gave the inaugural lecture of his named professorship April 24 on "Computing Polymer Turbulence: Challenges and Rewards."

A member of the UD faculty since 1985, Beris received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He conducts research on the development and application of numerical methods to fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, reaction engineering and materials processing; the modeling of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and simulation of complex systems, such as polymer solutions and melts; and the use of parallel computer architectures in high-performance computing.

His named professorship honors Arthur B. Metzner, H. Fletcher Brown Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, who came to the University in 1953 and chaired the Department of Chemical Engineering from
1970-77.

Beris has published extensively in his field and has made numerous presentations, including a plenary lecture for the Society of Rheology in 2001. He also is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship for sabbatical leave in Belgium in 1999-2000 and a Navy fellowship for a sabbatical leave at the Naval Research Laboratory. He has served on national advisory boards and is a reviewer for several scientific journals.