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Cornell University

Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental Engineering Mechanical Engineering Oceanography Fluid Dynamics Fluid Mechanics

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5.04/23/2026

Always goes above and beyond for students.

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Peter J. Diamessis, known as Pete Diamessis, is a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering within Cornell University's College of Engineering. He joined the faculty in January 2006 after earning his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2001. As an undergraduate at NTUA, he participated actively in the environmentalist student group and served as a research assistant in the Computational Fluid Dynamics laboratory, developing a multifractal cascade model for fluid turbulence. His doctoral thesis utilized direct numerical simulations of stratified homogeneous turbulence to interpret ocean microstructure measurements. Subsequently, as a postdoctoral researcher in the fluid dynamics group at the University of Southern California's Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, he developed and implemented numerically stable spectral multidomain techniques and conducted numerical investigations of stably stratified turbulent wakes and instabilities under internal solitary waves.