Dra. Vasiliki Tsamakda

Vasiliki Tsamakda studied History and Archaeology at the Universities of Crete and Leipzig and achieved her PhD in Byzantine Archaeology and Art History in 2001 from Heidelberg University with a thesis entitled: The Illustrated Chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid (published in 2002). In 2008, she achieved her Postdoctoral lecturing qualification Habilitation (Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History) at the University of Munich. From 2006 to 2009 she was employed as Junior Scientist at the Institute for Studies on Ancient Culture, Austrian Academy of Sciences. She was lecturer at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich and Assistant Professor at Munich (2001-2009). Since 2009 she is Professor at the University of Mainz and head of the Department for Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History. She was awarded a PhD (1997-99) and a Habilitation Scholarship (2005) of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is founding member and since 2011 Member of the Executive Board of Leibniz Science Campus Mainz: Byzantium between Orient und Occident (www.byzanz-mainz.de). Her main research fields are: book illumination, monumental art, catacomb painting, the cross-cultural relationship between Byzantium and the West.