Karagiorgou Olga

Olga Karagiorgou graduated with distinction from the University of Athens (Department of History and Archaeology) and continued her studies at the University of Oxford (Christ Church): M.Phil. in Byzantine Studies (1995), D.Phil. in Byzantine Archaeology (2001). She was a postgraduate scholar of the Greek Archaeological Committee, U.K., the British Academy, the A. S. Onasis Foundation, the Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C.), and a postdoctoral fellow of the National Hellenic Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y) and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. She taught at the Oxford University (2004) and at the Hellenic Open University (2010-2014) and worked for the Prosopography of the Byzantine World Project, King's College, London (2001-2004).

She has taken part in excavations in Greece and abroad (Syria, Turkey), has presented scientific communications in over 50 national and international conferences and has written more than 30 studies related to her scientific interests: Late Antiquity (evolution of urban centers, economy, trade with an emphasis on amphorae and marble), Byzantine seals, prosopography and iconography. She is a collaborator in international research projects and has served as Principal Investigator and Academic Advisor in funded projects hosted by the Academy of Athens. In November 2013 her research proposal on Byzantine Asia Minor was one of 180 research projects (out of a total of 1622 submitted proposals) to receive funding by the "ARISTEIA II" programme of the National Strategic Reference Framework, NSRF 2007-2013, with the amount of 200,000 euros. Since 2015, she has been directing the TAKTIKON research project on the prosopography and administrative structure of Byzantine themes. The first research results of this project were published in the collective volume TAKTIKON. Studies on the Prosopography and Administration of the Byzantine themata, eds. Olga Karagiorgou, Pantelis Charalampakis, Christos Malatras, Athens 2021. The total cost of this publication was exclusively covered by donations amounting to 21,000 euros. In 2023, the volume received the "Vasso Penna" International Award for the best study on Byzantine numismatics and/or sigillography within the last five years.

She is member of the Commission for Sigillography of the International Association of Byzantine Studies, member of the Executive Boards of the Greek Committee of Byzantine Studies and of the Greek Committee for South-Eastern European Studies, as well as member of the Executive Board of the Association of Researchers of the Academy of Athens and member of the Scientific Council of the Research Centres of the Academy of Athens.