Andreas Kyprianou is a born and bred Mancunian of Manx-Cypriot descent and recent Mongolian tendencies. He has a degree in Mathematics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Probability Theory from Sheffield University. He has held academic positions in Mathematics and Statistics departments at the London School of Economics, Edinburgh University, Utrecht University and, currently, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, besides working for nearly two years as a research mathematician in the oil industry. His research is focused on pure and applied probability.