Bouras-Vallianatos was born in Cephalonia, Greece,[4] and studied pharmacy at the University of Athens and classics and ancient history at King's College London.
[a] In 2021, he was awarded the Prize for Young Historians by the International Academy of the History of Science for his book Innovation in Byzantine medicine.
[5] His long pathway article on ‘Cross-Cultural Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Introduction and Dissemination of Sugar-Based Potions from the Islamic World to Byzantium’ in Speculum (2021) has been chosen as ‘Article of the Month’, November 2021,[6] by the Mediterranean Seminar and was awarded the 2022 Estes Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine.
He holds the honorary fellowship in history at the University of Edinburgh, and he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
[8] Bouras-Vallianatos serves as the senior editor of the series "Global Histories of Premodern Health and Healing" by the Edinburgh University Press,[9] and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies.