Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis lives and works in Thessaloniki. He obtained both his MA (1998) and his PhD (2005) in Modern and Contemporary History from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the years 2010-2011 he was a visiting Lecturer at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus. His research interests lie mainly in the area of economic and social history of the Greeks of Anatolia and Cyprus (19th-early 20th c.), and the refugee settlement of the Greeks of Pontus and Asia Minor in Greece after the Lausanne Treaty (1923).

Among his publications are the following studies: The “Eldorado” of the East. The penetration of European companies in the mines of Asia Minor (1861-1923), Thessaloniki 2008, “On the Early U.S. Interest in Cyprus: the Annual Report (1863) by Consul J. Judson Barclay”, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 26/27 (2010/2011), 39-56, and The “Leper Farm” in Cyprus. The British policy and the fate of patients (1878-1930), Thessaloniki 2014.