Anastasios Tantsis is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Archeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an alternate member of the Αdministrative Board of European Centre for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (EKBMM). He received his Diploma in Architecture in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Byzantine Archaeology in 2008 both from AuTH. He was a IKY scholarship recipient during his studies and an International Visiting Scholar at UIUC, USA for 2005-2007. He is participating in the University Excavation of Philippi and Mochlos of Sitia and also teaching at the Postgraduate Program of Protection, Conservation and Restoration of the Faculty of Engineering.