The Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence at the Cyprus University of Technology announced that its CEO, Professor Diofantos Hadjimitsis, has been ranked among the top 0.5% of scientists globally in the latest ScholarGPS 2024 rankings.

This major recognition reflects Professor Hadjimitsis’s influential research in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Satellite Remote Sensing, and Cultural Heritage. It also reinforces the Eratosthenes Centre’s role as a regional hub for scientific excellence.

ScholarGPS is the first platform offering a comprehensive and quantitatively validated ranking of scientists and research institutions worldwide. It evaluates over 14 scientific fields, 177 subfields, and more than 350,000 specialties, using metrics such as publication count, citation indices, and h-index scores. Its database includes over 30 million scientific profiles across 55,000 institutions in 200+ countries.

Based on these criteria, Professor Hadjimitsis holds:

• #1,676 in Civil and Environmental Engineering

• #27 in Cultural Heritage

• #39 in Archaeology and Satellite Remote Sensing

• #231 in Remote Sensing overall

In recent five-year performance rankings, he stands at:

• #72 in Cultural Heritage

• #257 in Remote Sensing

Professor Hadjimitsis is also:

• A Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Cyprus University of Technology

• Vice President of the Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education (DIQAA)

• Coordinator of the €38+ million EU Horizon 2020 EXCELSIOR Teaming project

• Co-Chair of NASA’s MEDRIN network for space research in the Eastern Mediterranean

He previously served as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at the university.