Andreas Acrivos is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, Emeritus at the City College of New York. He is also the Director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics. He was born on 13 June 1928 in Athens, Greece. He received a Bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in 1950, a Master's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1951, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1954; all in chemical engineering. Acrivos is considered to be one of the great fluid dynamicists of the 20th century. In 1954 Acrivos joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1962, he moved to Stanford University where he helped Professor David Mason build one of the world's finest chemical engineering programs. In 1987 Acrivos joined as the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of the City University of New York, a chair vacated by the death of renowned fluid dynamicist Veniamin Levich.

Professor Acrivos has received numerous Honors & Awards, such as the Colburn, Professional Progress and Lewis Awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society, the G.I. Taylor Medal from the Society of Engineering Science and the Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology. He is recognized as an ISI highly cited researcher. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He received the 2001 National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony in 2002.