Dr. Nikolaev is an Assoicate Professor and the Tracy Family Faculty Fellow at the College of Business at Colorado State University.

He is also an Editor at Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (AJG 4*), one of the top journals in the field of entrepreneurship, an editor at Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, and instructor for Statistical Horizons.

His research includes over 50 peer-reviewed publications, including a dozen articles in premier journals such as JBV, ETP, JAP, SEJ, and JIBS. His work has been featured in the Economist, Forbes, TechCrunch, the Atlantic, and many other media outlets. He has received multiple research excellence awards, including the Habicht Early Career Research Award and Business for Better World Research Award.

In the classroom, Dr. Nikolaev's passion for innovative teaching has earned recognition from the Academy of Management, the largest professional organization of management and entreprenuership scholars in the world. He has also received numeous university-wide teaching awards, including the William H. Fox Teaching Award for Emerging Excellence (Emory University), the N. Preston Davis Award for Instructional Innovation (Colorado State University), the Provost Award for Outstanding Teaching (University of South Florida), and the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award (AOM ENT Division).

What drives Dr. Nikolaev is a curiosity about how entrepreneurship shapes our world and a commitment to nurturing the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurship scholars. Whether he is exploring the impact of AI on value creation or investigating the well-being of entrepreneurs, his goal is to produce research that matters and education that inspires.

Outside of academia, Dr. Nikolaev spends most of his time with his family, travelling, taking a lot
of pictures, playing computer games with his kids, and building stuff in his garage. He enjoys
every opportunity to be outdoors and is also a big football fan.