Dr Trichas is best known for his popular TEDx talks "May I have your Attention?" and "Knock Yourself Out, or Knock Them Out". He is a powerful keynote speaker that combines cutting edge research with instruction creating motivational moments with practical value. When he’s not on stage, Dr Trichas is on TV analyzing important concepts of his expertise such as body language, leadership, lie detection and psychology of communication.
Dr Trichas has collaborated with several prestigious universities and organizations such as Stanford University, the University of Durham, the Bank of Cyprus, and World Vision. He is also associated with the FBI National Academy Associates Cyprus Police where he serves as a guest lecturer under the topics of management, communication, and deception detection. Currently, Dr. Trichas as a part time lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus (Educational Management, postgraduate level), and as a full time instructor at the Ministry of Education and Culture in Cyprus. In addition, he reviews manuscripts for international high-impact scientific journals related with leadership and organizational behavior such as The Leadership Quarterly. His research interest focus in a specific nonverbal area, facial expressions. To be able to do so, he had to study the human face in depth. Consequently he became an official certified coder in the facial action coding system (FACS). FACS is a highly valid, widely used tool that combines anatomy with photo or video analysis observation to define exact facial muscle movement and intensity (Ekman, Friesen, & Hager, 2002; Trichas, 2015).
