Professor P. C. Kelires originates from the town of Akanthou, in Famagusta District. He is married and has three children. He got his B.Sc. degree (1981) in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece, and his Ph.D degree (1987) in theoretical Solid State Physics from the State University of New York, Albany (USA). He was IBM Research Division post-doctoral fellow at the world-renowned T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York (1987-89). He was elected as Assistant Professor in the Physics Department of the University of Crete (Greece) in 1989, and he got tenure as Associate Professor in 1994. He was promoted to full Professor in 2003. He was elected as Professor of Materials Science in the Cyprus University of Technology in 2006. He is internationally recognized as an expert in Computational Materials Science and Physics of Condensed Matter, especially in Monte Carlo simulations. He served (1999-2002) as a member of the council of the Europeen Organization for Computational Physics CECAM (Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire). He has about 80 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, mainly on semiconductor materials, about 1200 citations to his work from other researchers, and he has given about 40 invited talks in international conferences. He has also published numerous review articles in journals and books. He has been involved in the organization of 18 international conferences (chairman in three of them). He supervised five Ph.D theses (other two are in progress) and six post-doctoral fellows. Research interests: Computational Materials Science – Condensed Matter Physics; Study of structural and optoelectronic properties of crystalline, amorphous and nanostructured semiconductors using Monte Carlo simulations and tight-binding Molecular Dynamics; Nanomaterials (quantum dots, nanocrystals, etc.); Nanomechanics (atomic level stresses and moduli); Statistical – thermodynamic approach.