Curriculum Vitae
Maria Glykeria Giannouli is a postgraduate student of Byzantine Archaeology at the University of Athens.
They hold a bachelor’s degree in Archaeology and History of Art from the University of Athens, graduating with distinction (2020-2024). They continued with postgraduate studies at the same university (2024-2026), attending the MSc programme “Byzantine World: History and Archaeology”, with the thesis title: “The reflections of God-made light: middle byzantine windowpanes and window transennae”. Their undergraduate studies were grant-aided by the Bakalas Foundation and their master’s thesis by the Janet Zakos Foundation. They interned at the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens and volunteered at the Department of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Collection at the Benaki Museum, where they worked in archiving and cataloguing. They have participated in excavations in Greece and Sicily and worked in the digitalisation and archiving of the findings and volunteered at various units, labs and archives of the Department of Archaeology. They have also attended the Byzantine Paleography course offered by the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation and the courses on Byzantine Epigraphy and Sigillography offered by the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
Since September 2026 they have contributed part-time as a postgraduate researcher in the Byz-GOVAG research programme. Their work includes cataloguing bibliographic and archival material related to sigillographic and non-sigillographic sources, on-site research in public and/or private sigillographic collections, entry of all relevant data from sigillographic sources into specially designed Excel spreadsheets, and updating the TAKTIKON online database with the relevant material.
Their research interests include archaeometry (glass), light studies of byzantine churches, the iconography of middle byzantine seals and coins.