Thomas C. Katsouleas

Thomas C. Katsouleas is an American academic administrator. On February 2019, he was named the 16th president of the University of Connecticut, and officially began his term in August.

Katsouleas began his undergraduate education at Santa Monica Community College and received his bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1979, earning his Ph.D. in physics from UCLA in 1984.

After graduating from UCLA, Katsouleas taught there for seven years before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California in 1991 as an associate professor of physics. In 1997, he was named a full professor. Katsouleas was vice provost for information services at USC and also was an associate dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Katsouleas also served as provost at the University of Virginia beginning in 2015, and as the dean of the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering.

Katsouleas is an inventor and was awarded the Plasma Science Achievement Award by the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 2001. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 publications.

In 2010, Katsouleas started Duke's Katsouleas NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program, which challenges students to use their knowledge to work on challenges posed by the National Academy of Engineering.