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　　Dr. Kaxiras received a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from MIT and joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1991. He is the Founding Director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science, served as the Director of the Initiative on Innovative Computing, and his distinctions include Fellow of the American Physical Society and Chartered Physicist of the Institute of Physics. His research interests encompass a wide range of topics in the physics of solids and fluids, most recently on materials for renewable energy, especially batteries and photovoltaics, and on simulations of blood flow in coronary arteries.