Costas N. Papanicolas is a Cypriot nuclear and particle physicist with over 35 years' experience as a researcher, an educator and a scientific administrator.

Papanicolas has over 180 publications[10][11][12] in peer-reviewed journals, numerous conference proceedings and has written many popular articles on matters of science, policy and education.

[15] He is also professor emeritus, Senate of the University of Athens since 2018, and has received numerous awards, including the bestowment of a "Medal of Excellence for Service to the Cyprus Republic" (2019),[16] the decoration as "Commendatore dell’ Ordine della Stella d’Italia" (2019),[17][18] and J.M.

Gago Award in European Science Policy”, bestowed by the Mister of Research and Higher Education of Portugal (2021).

[19][20] Additionally, Pananicolas was elected Associate Member of the Overseas Academy of Sciences of France (ASOM) and he became the first Cypriot to receive such an honor.