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).
[5] Christofides algorithm is considered "groundbreaking" and has collected over 2200 citations.
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.