Regino Criado

Dr. Regino Criado is Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC), where he has held academic positions since June 2000. He currently serves as Academic Director of the Data, Complex Networks and Cybersecurity Sciences Institute (since March 2017) and was elected to the Academia Europaea in May 2023. His career spans European research projects (ESPRIT II/III) and interdisciplinary collaborations at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and cybersecurity.

His research focuses on Complex Networks, including hyper-networks, multiplex networks, and mesoscale structures, with applications to cybersecurity, intentional risk management, and synchronization phenomena. Key innovations include:

• A game theory-based intentional risk model integrating accessibility, anonymity, and value metrics
• Hybrid network mining algorithms for credit card fraud detection
• PageRank extensions to multiplex networks
• Framework for discrete resilience analysis in technological systems

His work on the 2014 Physics Reports monograph The structure and dynamics of multilayer networks (3,500+ citations) established foundational concepts in multilayer network theory. Current research explores linguistic pattern analysis through multilayer hypergraphs for automatic text summarization.

• Member of Academia Europaea (2023)
• Chaos Journal Best Paper Award (2011)
• Academic Entrepeneurs Prize (2002)
• EUROPA-1992 Prize (1992)

As director of the DCNC Institute (2017-present) and BBVA-URJC Chair (2017-2018), he has led major academic-industry collaborations. His 180+ publications (6,500+ citations) demonstrate sustained impact across network science, applied mathematics, and cybersecurity.