Dr Archaeologist
Department of Vases, Metalwork and Minor Arts
mchristakou@culture.gr

Maria Tolia-Christakou studied History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she also completed her doctoral thesis “The red-figure pottery production of the Nikosthenes’ and Pamphaios’ workshops” thanks to a scholarship from the Hellenic National Scholarships Foundation. She has worked as an archaeologist at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture since 2005, initially at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres and then at the Directorate of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities, and the Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. She started working at the National Archaeological Museum in 2018, while from 2020 onwards she is also Secretary of the Central Archaeological Council. She specialises on Attic red-figure pottery, and has participated in numerous excavations in Macedonia (Pydna, Methoni, Thessaloniki, ancient sites in the Serres region). Her research interests include ancient Greek pottery, topography of Macedonia and Thrace and epigraphy, and she has published in Greek as well as in foreign scientific journals.