Nick P. Proukakis is a Professor of Quantum Physics at Newcastle University and the Co-Director of the Joint Quantum Centre Durham-Newcastle. He received his Physics degree from Imperial College and DPhil from Oxford, and before taking up his permanent academic post at Newcastle he undertook research posts at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (Heraklion), the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching), Durham and Utrecht Universities; he has held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Toronto, Kingston, Tubingen and Antwerpen, and visiting posts at the Universities of Brisbane and Trento. He is an expert on finite temperature non-equilibrium modelling of quantum gases, and his research interests span from atomic physics to optical condensates and quantum technologies, being mainly focused on universal features, non-equilibrium dynamics, multi-component condensates and superfluid turbulence, and applications to atomtronics.