Neophytos Neophytou received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA in 2008. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Microelectronics at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria until 2013. He is currently a professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. He was awarded the ERC Starting and the ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Commission. His area of specialisation is theory, computational modelling, and simulation of electron and phonon transport in nanomaterials and nanodevices. His current research interests include thermoelectric transport in nanostructured devices, and complex bandstructure materials for energy conversion and generation applications.