Michael Amiridis

Michael Amiridis became 30th president of the University of South Carolina on July 1, 2022. Before coming home to Carolina, he led the University of Illinois Chicago as its chancellor since 2015.

Prior to leading UIC, Amiridis spent more than two decades at our Columbia campus as a faculty member and administrator, serving from 2009 to 2015 as the university's executive vice president for academic affairs and provost.

As a researcher, Amiridis earned the National Science Foundation's award for early-career scientists and engineers in 1996, was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012 and was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2015.

He and his wife, Ero, are the parents of two children who are both graduates of the University of South Carolina.