Athanasios Semoglou

Athanasios Semoglou studied Archaeology and Art at the Faculty of Philosophy (Dept. of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AUTh). From 1988 to 1991, he pursued postgraduate studies in Paris (Institut d’art et d’Archéologie, Paris I) and Belgrade (Dept of History and Art). He achieved his PhD thesis (1992-1995) at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) as fellow of the Alexandros Onassis Foundation. He is currently working in the Dept of History and Archaeology of the AUTh as a staff member, lecturer since 1999 and tenured professor of Byzantine art and archaeology since 2015. In 2007, he received a centenary bursary from the British School at Athens for research in the UK. In 2012, he was a DAAD fellow for research in Münich and Freibourg. The same year was elected Directeur d’Études Associé at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. Since 2013, he is member of the Greek national Committee of the Memory of World of Unesco. He is also member of the scientific committee of many international journals and participated to four international research projects as a coordinator. Since 2020, he is associated president of the European Center of Byzantine Monuments (Ministry of Culture) and member of the committee of the Center of Preservation of the Athonite Heritage. He organized and participated to more than 100 international and national scientific congresses, he published three books more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, two catalogues of byzantine icons and book reviews. His interests are the Byzantine and post-byzantine iconography particularly of the transitive periods (protobyzantine and late Byzantine-early Post-byzantine period).