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'''Nectarios Christodoulos Papanicolaou''' (born 2 January 1976) is a Cypriot applied mathematician and Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus. His research focuses on the use of Galerkin spectral methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. | |||
[[Category:Scientist]] | ==Biography== | ||
Papanicolaou received his B.Sc. in Mathematics, with an emphasis in Applied Mathematics, from the University of Cyprus in 1999. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the United States, earning an M.Sc. in Mathematics in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics in May 2003. His doctoral dissertation was titled ''A Galerkin Spectral Method for Fourth-Order Boundary Value Problems''. During his graduate studies he held a teaching assistantship from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and worked as a research assistant under a grant from the Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE). | |||
Returning to Cyprus in 2003, he joined the Department of Computer Science at Intercollege as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics, continuing in the same position at the University of Nicosia from 2007. He was promoted to Associate Professor in May 2011 and to full Professor in July 2017. | |||
==Work== | |||
Papanicolaou works in applied and computational mathematics, with his principal expertise being the application of Galerkin spectral methods to the numerical solution of partial differential equations. His research includes interdisciplinary work carried out in collaboration with academics in Cyprus, Europe and the United States, with topics including numerical modeling of solitary magnetic spin waves in thin films and the study of boundary value problems. | |||
==External links== | |||
* [https://www.unic.ac.cy/papanicolaou-nectarios/ University of Nicosia faculty profile] | |||
* [https://pure.unic.ac.cy/en/persons/nectarios-papanicolaou University of Nicosia Research Portal profile] | |||
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6mRLrW0AAAAJ Google Scholar profile] | |||
* [https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=69288 Mathematics Genealogy Project entry] | |||
[[Category:Scientist|Papanicolaou Nectarios]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 15:21, 17 July 2026
Nectarios Christodoulos Papanicolaou | |
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| Nectarios Christodoulos Papanicolaou | |
| Born | January 2, 1976 |
| Residence | Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Nationality | Cypriot |
| Known for | Computational Mathematics, Numerical Partial Differential Equations |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied Mathematician |
Nectarios Christodoulos Papanicolaou (born 2 January 1976) is a Cypriot applied mathematician and Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus. His research focuses on the use of Galerkin spectral methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations.
Biography
Papanicolaou received his B.Sc. in Mathematics, with an emphasis in Applied Mathematics, from the University of Cyprus in 1999. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the United States, earning an M.Sc. in Mathematics in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics in May 2003. His doctoral dissertation was titled A Galerkin Spectral Method for Fourth-Order Boundary Value Problems. During his graduate studies he held a teaching assistantship from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and worked as a research assistant under a grant from the Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE).
Returning to Cyprus in 2003, he joined the Department of Computer Science at Intercollege as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics, continuing in the same position at the University of Nicosia from 2007. He was promoted to Associate Professor in May 2011 and to full Professor in July 2017.
Work
Papanicolaou works in applied and computational mathematics, with his principal expertise being the application of Galerkin spectral methods to the numerical solution of partial differential equations. His research includes interdisciplinary work carried out in collaboration with academics in Cyprus, Europe and the United States, with topics including numerical modeling of solitary magnetic spin waves in thin films and the study of boundary value problems.