Antony Beris, the Arthur B. Metzner Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was honored by the Society of Rheology with the 2025 Bingham Medal for outstanding contributions to the field. A leader in his field, Beris’ work has led to innovative strategies for modeling the way complex and highly structured materials flow, from toothpaste and ketchup to polymers used in plastics, fiber composites and liquid crystals, such as those used in TV displays, and even the blood found in our bodies. He has pioneered a novel modeling approach through an extension of thermodynamics and has developed high performance computer simulations that allow engineers to successfully process many materials, for instance polymers used in wire and cable. These simulations also enable engineers to employ additives to reduce the force required for fluids to flow, say, in transferring water or oil through pipelines. The Society of Rheology specifically cited Beris’ work developing “a new systematic approach to apply nonequilibrium thermodynamics to the modeling of complex fluid flow with applications to viscoelasticity and liquid crystals; for the stability analysis of viscoelastic flows and the first direct numerical simulations of polymer-induced drag reduction; for modeling thixotropy and blood rheology.” Beris was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.
Prof. Beris awarded 2025 Bingham Medal
