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Director, Institute for Digital Informatics and Analysis
Donald Kouri is a Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Houston (UH). His four-decade career has taken him to universities in the U.S. and abroad, and he has received 18 awards and honors for his work. An active member of the UH community, he has developed several new courses, mentored more than 37 graduate and post-doctoral students and hosted guest researchers from around the world.
Among Dr. Kouri's research interests are theoretical and computational chemistry and physics; the development of new methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations; integral equations; mathematical chemistry and physics; the development and application of new wavelets; digital signal processing; generalized coherent states and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
He has assisted in more than 34 evaluations of fellow academics for promotions or tenure. In addition, Dr. Kouri serves as evaluator for several industry fellowships, and referees grant proposals for the National Science Foundation (in chemical physics, thermodynamics and structure, theoretical physics, and atomic and molecular physics), the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Research Office, the Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund, and the Research Corporation. He is contributing editor of 12 academic journals and has been a guest lecturer or conference chair of more than 60 industry symposiums.
A member of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, Phi Eta Sigma, Omicron Delta Kappa, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Dr. Kouri holds a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin.
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