Biography

Prof. Nuno Crokidakis

Fluminense Federal University

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Email: nuno@mail.if.uff.br


Qualifications

2011 Ph.D., Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

2007 M.D., Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, Brazil


Publications (Selected)


  1. Crokidakis, Nuno. (2026). Modeling the Fall of the Inca Empire: A Lotka–Volterra Approach to the Spanish Conquest. Physics, 8(1), 7.
  2. Alencar, W. L., Filho, J. L. D. C., & Crokidakis, N. (2025). Computational modeling of school violence: Estimating the number of violent acts in educational environments. International Journal of Modern Physics C.
  3. Crokidakis, Nuno. (2025). When cardinals strategize: An agent-based model of influence and ideology for the papal conclave. arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07014.
  4. Crokidakis, Nuno. (2025). A mathematical model for the bullying dynamics in schools. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 492, 129254.
  5. Crokidakis, N. (2025). Dynamics of drug trafficking: Results from a simple compartmental model. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 36(03), 2450201.
  6. Forgerini, F. L., Crokidakis, Nuno. (2025). Opinion dynamics: physics in social sciences. Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, 47, e0240451.
  7. Forgerini, F. L., Crokidakis, N., & Carvalho, M. A. (2024). Directed propaganda in the majority-rule model. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 35(07), 2450082.
  8. Crokidakis, Nuno. (2024). Nonequilibrium phase transitions and absorbing states in a model for the dynamics of religious affiliation. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 643, 129820.
  9. Crokidakis, N. (2024). Recent violent political extremist events in Brazil and epidemic modeling: The role of a SIS-like model on the understanding of spreading and control of radicalism. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 35(02), 2450015.
  10. Oestereich, A., Pires, M., Crokidakis, N., & Cajueiro, D. (2023). Optimal rewiring in coupled opinion and epidemic dynamics with vaccination. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02488.
  11. Crokidakis, N. (2023). Radicalization phenomena: Phase transitions, extinction processes and control of violent activities. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 34(08), 2350100.
  12. da Luz, M. G., Anteneodo, C., Crokidakis, N., & Perc, M. (2023). Sociophysics: Social collective behavior from the physics point of view. Chaos Solitons and Fractals, 170, 113379.
  13. Crokidakis, N., de Menezes, M. A., & Cajueiro, D. O. (2023). Questions of science: chatting with ChatGPT about complex systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.16870.
  14. Crokidakis, N., & Sigaud, L. (2022). Role of inflexible minorities in the evolution of alcohol consumption. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2022(9), 093403.
  15. Crokidakis, N. (2022). Modeling the impact of civilian firearm ownership in the evolution of violent crimes. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 429, 127256.
  16. Crokidakis, N. (2022). A simple mechanism leading to first-order phase transitions in a model of tax evasion. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 33(06), 2250075.
  17. Pires, M., Crokidakis, N., & Queirós, S. D. (2020). Randomness in Ecological evolution: the role of complexity on the Allee effect. Authorea Preprints.
  18. Pires, M. A., Crokidakis, N., Cajueiro, D. O., de Menezes, M. A., & Queirós, S. D. (2020). What is the potential for a second peak in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil? Insights from a SIRASD model considering the informal economy. Portal do CBPF, retirado em, 3.
  19. Crokidakis, N., & Sigaud, L. (2021). Modeling the evolution of drinking behavior: A Statistical Physics perspective. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 570, 125814.
  20. Pires, M. A., Oestereich, A. L., Crokidakis, N., & Queirós, S. M. D. (2021). Antivax movement and epidemic spreading in the era of social networks: nonmonotonic effects, bistability and network segregation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.07869.
  21. Crokidakis, N. (2020). Modeling the early evolution of the COVID-19 in Brazil: Results from a Susceptible–Infectious–Quarantined–Recovered (SIQR) model. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 31(10), 2050135.
  22. Crokidakis, N. (2020). COVID-19 spreading in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Do the policies of social isolation really work?. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 136, 109930.
  23. Crokidakis, N. (2020). Modeling the early evolution of the COVID-19 in Brazil: Results from a Susceptible–Infectious–Quarantined–Recovered (SIQR) model. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 31(10), 2050135.
  24. Oestereich, A. L., Pires, M. A., & Crokidakis, N. (2019). Three-state opinion dynamics in modular networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.10927.
  25. Calvelli, M., Crokidakis, N., & Penna, T. J. (2019). Phase transitions and universality in the Sznajd model with anticonformity. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 513, 518-523.
  26. Pires, M. A., Oestereich, A. L., & Crokidakis, N. (2018). Sudden transitions in coupled opinion and epidemic dynamics with vaccination. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2018(5), 053407.





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WoS Researcher ID: C-5385-2013


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