Nicos Christofides (born 1942 in Cyprus;[1] died 2019)[2] was a Cypriot mathematician and professor of financial mathematics at
Imperial College London.
Christofides studied
electrical engineering at Imperial College London, where he also received his
PhD in 1966 (dissertation: The origin of load losses in induction motors with cast aluminum rotors).[3] He was briefly with
Associated Electrical Industries and then again at Imperial College.[4]
In 1982, he became professor of
operations research. In 1990, he was the co-founder and director of the Centre for Quantitative Finance (now the Institute for Financial Engineering). Christofides became Professor Emeritus of Quantitative Finance at Imperial College London in 2009. He died in 2019.
References
^Hannah Gay, History of Imperial College London 1907-2007, Imperial College Press 2007