Christos Nicolaides

Christos Nicolaides is a Marie S. Curie Fellow and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Public Administration at University of Cyprus (UCY). He has also secondary appointments as a Digital Fellow at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Visiting Lecturer at London Business School. Before joining UCY, Christos spent three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management funded by the James McDonnell Foundation. He has a PhD in Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MSc in Applied Mathematics from Imperial College London and BSc in Physics from University of Thessaloniki.

His research focus on applying mathematical, statistical and computational tools to large-scale empirical and data driven research questions with applications in identification of social influence that is mediated, amplified, or directed by interactive technologies. He has worked closely with global firms on realizing business value from social media and information technology investments. Christos’ research developments have been published in major scientific journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications and have been featured at prestigious news outlets including The New York Times, CNN and Los Angeles Times. On February 6, 2020, Christos was named as “Professor of The Week” by Poets & Quants.

He is principal institutional investigator in research projects funded by European Commission, industry, the Cyprus Innovation and Research Foundation and the Cyprus Ministry of Health. Christos has totally attracted more than 1M euros in research funding for his institution.

Publications

Journal Articles

• The Efficiency of US Public Space Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic, S. Benzell, A. Collis, & C. Nicolaides, Risk Analysis, (2021) (authors in alphabetical order)

• Social Status and Novelty Drove the Spread of Online Information During the Early Stages of COVID-19, A. Photiou, C. Nicolaides, P. Dhillon, Scientific Reports 11, 20098 (2021)

• Modelling disease transmission from touchscreen user interfaces, A. DiBattista, C. Nicolaides, & O. Georgiou, Royal Society Open Science 8(7), 210625 (2021)

• Uncovering the fragility of large-scale engineering projects, M. Santolini, C. Ellinas, and C. Nicolaides, EPJ Data Science 10, 36 (2021)

• Transmission of Vaccination Attitudes and Uptake Based on Social Contagion Theory: A Scoping Review. P. Konstantinou, K. Georgiou, N. Kumar, M. Kyprianidou, C. Nicolaides, M. Karekla, and A. P. Kassianos, Vaccines 9, 607 (2021)

• Mitigation Strategies against Cascading Failures within a Project Activity Network, C. Ellinas, C. Nicolaides, and N. Masuda, Journal of Computational Social Science, (2021) (read the paper)

• Modeling the First Wave of Covid-19 Pandemic in the Republic of Cyprus. S. Agapiou*, A. Anastasiou*, A. Baxevani*, C. Nicolaides*, G. Hadjigeorgiou, T. Christofides, E. Constantinou, G. Nikolopoulos, and K. Fokianos, Scientific Reports 11, 7342 (2021) (*authors listed in alphabetical order)

• Privacy Preserving Data Visualizations. D. Avraam, R. Wilson, O. Butters, T. Burton, C. Nicolaides, E. Jones, A. Boyd, and P. Burton. EPJ Data Science 10, 2021 (read the paper).

• Boosting Business Value by Reducing COVID-19 Transmission Risk, S. G. Benzell, Avinash Collis, and Christos Nicolaides (authors in alphabetical order), Sloan Management Review (2020) (read the paper).

• Big-Fish-Little-Pond-Effects on academic self-concept and academic achievement: Evidence from English early primary school data. I. Televantou, H. W. Marsh, T. Dicke, and C. Nicolaides, Learning & Instruction 71, 101399 (2020)

• Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19, D. Holtz, M. Zhao, S. G. Benzell, C. Y. Cao, M. A. Rahimian, J. Yang, J. Allen, A. Collis, A. Moehring, T. Sowrirajan, D. Ghosh, Y. Zhang, P. S. Dhillon, C. Nicolaides, D. Eckles, and S. Aral, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 117 (33), 19837-19843 (2020) (read the paper) *News Coverage: The Boston Globe, LA Times (op-ed), The Washington Post, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, WGBH (Boston), The Hill (op-ed), MIT Sloan, TechRepublic, Miami Herald.

• Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations, S. Benzell, A. Collis & C. Nicolaides (authors listed in alphabetical order), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 117 (26) 14642-14644 (2020), (Highly Cited Paper by the Web of Science).

*News Coverage: CNN, NPR, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Business Insider, Yahoo, Marginal Revolution, Brookings, FOX4 Dallas, MIT News, Marketplace, Marker, MIT Sloan, MIT Technology Review, San Diego Metro, LAist, AssociationsNow, UT McCombs, Austin-American Stateman. *Media mentions: The New York Times (1), The New York Times (2) Financial Times, Wall Street Journal. (Longer working paper version)

• Hand-Hygiene Mitigation Strategies Against the Spread of Infectious Diseases through the World Air Transportation Network. C. Nicolaides, D. Avraam, L. Cueto-Felgueroso, M. C. Gonzalez, and R. Juanes, Risk Analysis (2019), (Best Paper Award by the Risk Analysis Society)
  

*News Coverage: MIT News, MIT Sloan News (cover), Society of Risk Analysis (press release), World Economic Forum, CNBC, USA Today, Voice of America (Vid), The Atlantic, The Washington Times, CBS Boston (video), Business Insider, STAT, CATO Institute, The Telegraph (UK), The Independent (UK), Metro (UK), Express (UK), Daily Mail (UK), Medical XPress, MedicalNews Today, Times of India, Focus (Italy), WIRED (Italy), Consumer Affairs, Deutsches Arzteblatt (Germany), El Agora (Spain), El Confidencial (Spain).

• Morphological organization of point-to-point transport in complex networks. M.-Y. Kang, G. Berthelot, L. Tupikina, C. Nicolaides, J.-F. Colonna, B. Sapoval, and D. S. Grebenkov, Scientific Reports 9, 8322 (2019).

• Exercise contagion in a global social network S. Aral and C. Nicolaides, Nature Communications 8, 14753 (2017), (Highly Cited Paper by the Web of Science). *News Coverage: New York Times, LA Times, Science News, Science Magazine, Nature, New York Magazine, NBC News, EL PAIS, Daily Mail, US News, New York Daily News, Metro UK, Vice, Scientific American, Live Science.

• Self-organization of network dynamics into local quantized states C. Nicolaides, R. Juanes and L. Cueto-Felgueroso, Nature Scientific Reports 6, 21360 (2016).

• Impact of viscous fingering and permeability heterogeneity on fluid mixing through porous media C. Nicolaides, B. Jha, L. Cueto-Felgueroso, and R. Juanes, Water Resources Research, 51, (2015).

• The price of anarchy in mobility-driven contagion dynamics C. Nicolaides, L. Cueto-Felgueroso, and R. Juanes, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 10(87), 20130495 (2013). *News Coverage: MIT Homepage Spotlight, MIT News, NPR, Fox News, LiveScience, Science World Report, BostInno, Business Insider, Yahoo News, ScienceDaily, Medical News Today, MedicalXpress, R&D Magazine, ScienceBlog, Bioscience Technology

• A metric of influential spreading during contagion dynamics through the air transportation network C. Nicolaides, L. Cueto-Felgueroso, and R. Juanes, PLoS ONE, 7(7), e40961 (2012).

*News coverage: MIT Homepage Spotlight; MIT News; Science News; Science News for Kids; Nature Medicine; NPR; LA Times; Scientific American; Discovery Channel; The Atlantic; NY Daily News; USA Today; CNN; CNN News (video); ABC News; CBS news; Fox News; Fox News (video); Huffington Post; US News & World Report; American Institute of Physics; Voice of America; The Guardian (US); Pittsburgh Tribune; Daily Mail (UK) #1 & #2; NASDAQ (video); Time; Wired Magazine; Discover Magazine; Proto Magazine; WBUR (NPR Boston); KITV Honolulu; Metro; Smart Planet; Boing Boing; International Business Times; Herald Sun (Australia); Le Figaro (France); ABC (Spain)

• Anomalous physical transport in complex networks C. Nicolaides, L. Cueto-Felgueroso, and R. Juanes, Physical Review E, 82(5), 055101(R) (2010).