Dr Nikolas Ioannidis holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Bristol (2017). In the academic period 2017-2018 he was a Nippon Foundation Fellow at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. He teaches Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law at the University of Cyprus and International and European Law at the Hellenic Open University. He graduated from the School of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2010 and received a master’s degree (LLM) in Public International Law from the University of Bristol in 2012. In 2019 he was awarded by the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations for the best doctoral thesis by a Greek student in international law for the years 2017-2019. In 2020 he received the ‘Daniel Vignes’ award from the International Union for the Law of the Sea for his academic article in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly in relation to activities in undemarcated maritime areas. In 2020, his monograph entitled: “Maritime Claims and Boundary Delimitation: Tensions and Trends in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea” was published by the publishing house Routledge. He was President of the International and European Law Committee of the Pancypriot Bar Association. He is currently on leave from the University after serving as Deputy Minister of Immigration and International Protection of the Republic of Cyprus.