Kyriakos Porfyrakis graduated with a Chemical Engineering degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1995. He was awarded an MSc in Environmental Technology from UMIST, Manchester, UK (1996). He graduated with a DPhil in Materials Science from the University of Oxford in 2000. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Materials, University of Oxford (2001–2008). He became the Head of the Carbon Nanomaterials Laboratory in the Department of Materials, University of Oxford (2008–2019). From 2013 to 2018, he was an EPSRC Fellow in the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, and then between 2016 and 2019, was an Associate Professor of Materials in the same Department. Since 2019, he has held the Chair of Materials and Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, London. His research interests include the synthesis, characterization, and chemical functionalization of carbon nanomaterials such as endohedral fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene.