Irving R. Epstein

Irving R. Epstein is Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor at Brandeis University, where he has served as Dean of Arts and Sciences and as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and is currently Senior Advisor to the Provost and Senior Research Officer. He received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, a Diploma in Advanced Mathematics as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University. He has been awarded Guggenheim and Humboldt Fellowships and was a Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar. He chaired the first Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Oscillations and Dynamic Instabilities and currently serves on the editorial boards of Chaos and the Journal of Systems Chemistry and on the boards of directors of the New England Complex Systems Institute and the Mathematical Biosciences Institute. He is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences. His current research interests are in nonlinear chemical dynamics, particularly pattern formation, oscillating reactions, chaos and the behavior of complex networks.