Michail Stamatakis is Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at University College London, UK. He obtained his PhD from Rice University in 2009 and performed post-doctoral research at the lab of Prof. Dionisios G. Vlachos at the University of Delaware. He has developed a graph-theoretical kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) framework for the detailed investigation of surface kinetics, as well as a documented software package, Zacros, which implements this approach. His research efforts aim towards obtaining a fundamental understanding of the underlying physico-chemical processes during catalysis and materials synthesis, via multiscale computational methods. He is a member of the Thomas Young Centre (the London Centre for the Theory and Simulation of Materials), the UK Catalysis Hub and the Centre for Process Systems Engineering, and has co-authored over 30 scientific works.