Professor Kyriakos Porfyrakis

Professor Kyriakos Porfyrakis BSc, MSc, DPhil, FRSC

Professor of Engineering

Professor Porfyrakis is the Professor (Chair) of Materials and Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at Science, University of Greenwich. He joined the University in 2019. He is also an Academic visitor at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Previously he was an Associate Professor of Materials, and the Head of the Laboratory for Carbon Nanomaterials at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, UK.

Professor Porfyrakis holds an Undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1995) and an MSc Degree in Environmental Technology from the Department of Chemical Engineering, UMIST, Manchester, UK (1996). After completing a DPhil in Materials Science at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford in 2000, he established a world-leading laboratory for the production and purification of both nitrogen-containing and metal-containing endohedral fullerene molecules. He has attracted over £2.5 M in funding as a Principal Investigator and another £7.5 M as Co-Investigator in the fields of endohedral fullerenes and organic electronics.

In 2014, Professor Porfyrakis founded a spin out company (Designer Carbon Materials Ltd, www.designercarbon.com). The company is aiming to commercialise endohedral fullerenes and their derivatives. The company has been featured in several national newspapers such as the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent. Designer Carbon Materials Ltd. is now one of the leaders in the field of carbon nanomaterials and has received extended coverage particularly in China and the East where industrial manufacturing is booming.