Evangelos Tyrlis is an Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Dynamics at the Section of Environmental Physics-Meteorology, Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He was born in Kiato, Greece. He gained a BSc in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2000), an MSc in Weather, Climate and Modelling (2001) and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences (2006), both from the University of Reading, UK. He concluded his research on atmospheric blocking during his placement as a postgraduate research assistant at the Department of Meteorology of the University of Reading. He conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Atmospheric Modelling and Weather Forecasting Group of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Energy, Environment and Water Resource Centre of the Cyprus Institute. Subsequently, he became a Research Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany and contributed to the understanding of the links between Arctic Amplification and mid-latitude weather extremes. Currently, he contributes to the teaching of several undergraduate and postgraduate courses including Cloud Physics and Mesoscale Phenomena, Atmospheric Modelling, Atmospheric Physics and Synoptic Meteorology. He has extensive research experience on the dynamics involved in blocking onset and maintenance and the role of blocking in linking climate anomalies between the Arctic and mid-latitudes under a changing climate. In addition, he is active in identifying remote drivers of climate variability over the Mediterranean and the Middle East and the dynamical processes associated with the emergence of the region into a hotspot of climate change. He has participated in 7 scientific projects and published 24 articles in international peer-reviewed Journals and presented work in more than 60 international conferences. His published work has attracted around 1200 citations (excluding self-citations from all authors) resulting in an h-index of 15. He has acted as a reviewer for over 15 Journals including Journal of Climate, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society and Climate Dynamics.