Professor John Charalambous

London Metropolitan University

Professor Charalambous, founder of the Cyprus Community Studies Centre, is a Chartered Chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society. He graduated from the Pancyprian Gymnasium (Nicosia, Cyprus) in 1954 and then studied at the University of London from where he received the BSc(Hons)in Chemistry in 1959 and a PhD degree in 1962.

Following postdoctoral studies at the Universities of Western Ontario (Canada) and Wahenigen (Netherlands) he was appointed as Senior Research Officer at the Cyprus Agricultural Research Institute. He joined the University of North London (formerly Northern/North London Polytechnic) in 1966.

Throughout his career at the University he has been closely associated with the University’s international activities in Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. These encompass student counseling, recruitment and research student supervision. Cyprus and Greece related activities also include the organization of conferences, exhibitions and the publication of books and research concerned with the Cypriot community in the UK.