Anastasios Papadopoulos (Thessaloniki , 1979) is an MS Archaeologist by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The title of his Master Dissertation is The Assembly of Archangels in Byzantine Monumental Painting, which was graded with 9.53/10. He worked for many years at excavations sites in Northern Greece and Thessaloniki. He is also a PhD Candidate in Byzantine Archaeology in the Auth. His under preparation thesis is entitled The Assembly of Archangels and the Subject of Theoforia in Byzantine Art, under the tuition of Professor Athanassios Semoglou.
He worked also as a trainer in the seminaries that were held by the Greek Ministry of Tourism for professional tour guides, who are graduates in History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology in collaboration with the department of Museology of the AUTh. He is also an undergraduate student in History and a professional tour guide.
His investigation focuses on the study of religious depictions that could also contain some secular symbolisms, the signatures of Byzantine painters and the traces that the Catalan Company left in Greece, Constantinople and Asia Minor in cooperation with Professor Manuel Castiñeiras.
