Kyriakos S. Chatzikyriakidis holds a Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary History from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During the academic years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, he was a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus. From 2017 to 2025, he taught, with funding from the “Ivan Savvidis” Foundation, as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Chair of Pontic Studies in the School of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2025, he was elected to the position of Assistant Professor of the History of Hellenism in the East (Anatolia) at the same University. He has also taught in the English-language postgraduate program “MA in Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Studies” at the International Hellenic University during the period 2019-2020, as well as at the Hellenic Open University as a Collaborating Teaching Staff in the years 2021-2024.

His research interests, presentations at Greek and international conferences, and his writings relate to topics in Modern Greek History: Economic and Social History of Hellenism in the East and Cyprus (19th – early 20th centuries), Greek Diaspora, Greek Revolution, Refugee settlement and collective/associational organization of Pontic Greeks in Greece after 1922