Nikolaos Kidonakis
Νικόλαος Κυδωνάκης
Professor of Physics
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 according to a 2019 bibliometric study, based on my individual citations, paper rank, and author rank; and also No. 1 for papers in the hep-ph arXiv since 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 and Creative Activity Award, the 2017 University Distinguished Professor finalist award, and the 2019-2020 CSM 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 144 physics research publications, most of them single-authored, which have
received over twelve thousand citations.
My papers have appeared a total of 41 times among the top-cited particle-physics papers
in all-time lists and annual lists for many years.
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 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
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
