Nikolaos Kidonakis
Νικόλαος Κυδωνάκης
Professor of Physics
University Distinguished Professor Award
Ph.D. 1996 State University of New York at Stony Brook
MASt 1991 University of Cambridge
B.S. 1990 California Institute of Technology
I am a theoretical particle physicist and Professor of Physics. I was ranked No. 1 in the world in fundamental physics since 2010 in a 2019 bibliometric study on all four metrics of individual citations, paper rank, author rank, and citation-coin. I was also listed among the top authors since 2000, and also No. 1 in paper rank among authors with first paper in the hep-ph arXiv in or after 1993.
I received the KSU 2008 Distinguished Scholarship Award, the 2014 Distinguished Research and Creative Activity Award, the 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2014 Foundation Prizes, the 2016 Outstanding Research Award, and the 2020 University Distinguished Professor Award.
Research
My research is in theoretical high-energy particle physics, mainly in top quark physics,
top-antitop pair and single-top production, Higgs, W and Z production, perturbative
Quantum Chromodynamics, soft-gluon resummation, and calculations relevant for processes
at high-energy colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
My research has been funded for many years with grants from the National Science Foundation.
Publications
I have 145 physics research publications, most of them single-authored, which have
received over twelve thousand citations.
My papers have appeared a total of 42 times (27 times for single-authored papers) among the top-cited particle-physics papers
in all-time lists and annual lists since 2005.
My research papers can be found in my cv and, with citations, in the INSPIRE HEP database and in Google Scholar.
I have given over a hundred and fifty research talks in conferences, universities,
and national/international laboratories in numerous countries on five continents.
Physics Courses
Fall 2019: PHYS 2211
Spring 2020: PHYS 3260
Directed Study: PHYS 4400
past: Modern Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics,
Quantum Field Theory, General Relativity, Theoretical Particle Physics, The Standard
Model and beyond
Particle Physics Links
INSPIRE
e-print arXiv
PhysRank
Review of Particle Physics
The Particle Adventure
HEPDATA
CDF and D0 top quark results
ATLAS and CMS top quark results
