Hello! I’m Faidon, a writer and scientist. I was born in Athens, Greece, in 1990, and as a child, I was terrible at soccer but good with words. The former was evident to all, while the latter was something I used to hide — more often than not, it’s easier to hide our strengths than our weaknesses. Meanwhile, I was dreaming of becoming a physicist because the world seemed too interesting to remain undiscovered; the world was complicated, I was curious, and we got along nicely, the two of us. 

In 2013, I graduated with distinction from the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Technical University of Athens. My original plan was to fulfil my dreams of becoming a physicist, but I graduated as a mathematician with a specialisation in engineering instead. My life’s plan took an unexpected turn, as often happens to plans that have the nerve to look the future in the eye.

A year later, I enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Computational simulation of stent graft devices for abdominal aortic aneurysms… colloquially: go figure. The bottom line was that life was good, apart from the weather (Glasgow has 1,216 hours of sunshine annually, while Athens has 2,773, but who’s counting?).

In 2018, I earned my doctorate and worked as a post-doctoral researcher in cardiovascular devices, while in 2022, I started a new career as a data analyst, still hoping for a sunnier future — I do not imply brighter. 

Alongside science, art has always accompanied me; as a calling, a true love, a way to dig deeper in search of what is actually out there. In the past, I used to draw; now, I’m also dancing Argentine tango, yet the one thing I never stopped doing was writing.

I’ve been writing children’s stories since I was a child, along with verses, teenage poems, sketches of novels, my first completed novel… One creation followed another, and by the time I graduated from high school, I decided it was about time to start sharing my art; that is, to get exposed.

I was published in online poetry magazines, received a distinction in the 27th Delphic Poetry Competition (2012), participated in creative writing workshops, and, over time, started finding my voice, which is to say, I managed to express more by saying less.

Before I turned 25, I published my first picture book, The Soup of Wisdom (Metaichmio Publications, 2015), followed a few years later by Christmas Dream (Martis Publishing, 2019). A year later, my debut novel, The Guillotine of Nafplio (Kedros Publishers, 2020), reached the bookshelves amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, yet it survived the lockdown. Since then, I have published The Magic Soil (Martis Publishing, 2022), The Safe Box Maker (Kedros Publishers, 2023), and If Others Had Such a Monocular (Metaichmio Publications, 2024). Behind them, more books are queuing as I keep writing children’s stories, novels, lyrics, and spoken word poetry; in Greek, as always, but not exclusively. Brand new English stories are also in the making. Stay tuned!

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Legend has it that when Queen Victoria read Alice in Wonderland, she was thoroughly impressed by the story and asked its author to send her a copy of his next book. Yet Lewis Carroll, apart from being a wonderful storyteller, was also a mathematician. The outcome? The signed copy Her Majesty eventually received was a delightful book of algebra…

Anyone who wishes to get a glimpse of the emotions the Queen experienced is very welcome to have a look at my scientific work:

Evaluation of a New Approach for Modeling Full Ring Stent Bundles with the Inclusion of Manufacturing Strains

A Methodology to Quantify the Geometrical Complexity of the Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Analysing The Cross-Section of The Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Neck and Its Effects on Stent Deployment

Efficiently Simulating an Endograft Deployment: A Methodology for Detailed CFD Analyses

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You are welcome to contact me at faidon.kyriakou@gmail.com