2026 Athanassios S. Fokas: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	77	182	149	10	7	387	23183

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United Kingdom Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Member of Academia Europaea
2023 - Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics, European Academy of Sciences
2022 - Research.com Mathematics in United Kingdom Leader Award
2009 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Athanassios S. Fokas is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans interdisciplinary areas within mathematics and physics, with a significant focus on nonlinear dynamics, mathematical modeling, and epidemiology.

The main fields of study include:

Mathematics
Physics and Astronomy

Key subfields of study encompass:

Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Numerical Analysis
Cognitive Neuroscience
Modeling and Simulation
Mathematical Physics

Their work addresses several main topics, among which are:

Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
Nonlinear Photonic Systems
Numerical methods for differential equations
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function

Recent publications by Athanassios S. Fokas include:

"Doubly Localized Two-Dimensional Rogue Waves in the Davey-Stewartson I Equation" (2021), Journal of Nonlinear Science
"Mathematical models and deep learning for predicting the number of individuals reported to be infected with SARS-CoV-2" (2020), Journal of The Royal Society Interface
"A quantitative framework for exploring exit strategies from the COVID-19 lockdown" (2020), Chaos Solitons & Fractals
"Easing COVID-19 lockdown measures while protecting the older restricts the deaths to the level of the full lockdown" (2021), Scientific Reports
"Multi-Solitons, Multi-Breathers and Multi-Rational Solutions of Integrable Extensions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation in Three Dimensions" (2022), Fractal and Fractional

Frequent co-authors include:

George A. Kastis
Νικόλαος Δικαίος
Mark J. Ablowitz
Jonatan Lenells
Nicholas Ε. Protonotarios

The following publication venues are prominent in their record:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Studies in Applied Mathematics
Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Athanassios S. Fokas has also published a book titled Introduction to Complex Variables and Applications (2021) through Cambridge University Press.

Their academic recognition includes the award of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

Symplectic structures, their Bäcklund transformations and hereditary symmetries

B. Fuchssteiner;A.S. Fokas

2198
Citations
Complex Variables: Introduction and Applications

Mark J. Ablowitz;Athanassios S. Fokas

1286
Citations
A unified transform method for solving linear and certain nonlinear PDEs

A. S. Fokas;A. S. Fokas

707
Citations
The isomonodromy approach to matric models in 2D quantum gravity

A. S. Fokas;A. R. Its;A. V. Kitaev

700
Citations
On a class of physically important integrable equations

A. S. Fokas;A. S. Fokas

629
Citations
A unified approach to boundary value problems

Athanassios S. Fokas

560
Citations
Symmetries and Integrability

A. S. Fokas

446
Citations
Generating mechanism for higher-order rogue waves.

J. S. He;H. R. Zhang;L. H. Wang;K. Porsezian

415
Citations
Discrete Painlevé equations and their appearance in quantum gravity

A. S. Fokas;A. R. Its;A. V. Kitaev

382
Citations
On the Inverse Scattering Transform for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation

M. J. Ablowitz;D. Bar Yaacov;A. S. Fokas

367
Citations
Integrable Nonlinear Evolution Equations on the Half-Line

A.S. Fokas

317
Citations
The nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the half-line

A. S Fokas;A. R Its;L.-Y Sung

298
Citations
On the inverse scattering transform of multidimensional nonlinear equations related to first‐order systems in the plane

A. S. Fokas;M. J. Ablowitz

296
Citations
On a unified approach to transformations and elementary solutions of Painlevé equations

A. S. Fokas;M. J. Ablowitz

294
Citations
Coherent structures in multidimensions.

A. S. Fokas;P. M. Santini

279
Citations
A symmetry approach to exactly solvable evolution equations

A. S. Fokas

278
Citations
The Inverse Scattering Transform for the Benjamin‐Ono Equation—A Pivot to Multidimensional Problems

A. S. Fokas;M. J. Ablowitz

266
Citations
On the Inverse Scattering of the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation and the Associated Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (I) Equation

A. S. Fokas;M. J. Ablowitz

266
Citations
Important developments in soliton theory

A. S. Fokas;Vladimir Evgenʹevich Zakharov

250
Citations
The hierarchy of the Benjamin-Ono equation

A.S. Fokas;B. Fuchssteiner

237
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Ablowitz University of Colorado Boulder

Jonatan Lenells Royal Institute of Technology

Benno Fuchssteiner University of Paderborn

Daniel ben-Avraham Clarkson University

Darren Crowdy Imperial College London

Jingsong He Shenzhen University

Xin Zhou Beihang University

Alexander Its Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

Vladimir E. Zakharov Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics

Kostas Kostarelos University of Manchester

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