Athanasios Koumantos graduated in 1995 from Yale University with a B.A. in Architecture, and in 2000 from the National Technical University of Athens with a Diploma in Architecture. For a number of years he worked at the Directorate for Technical Research on Restoration of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and is now teaching at the Architecture School of the University of Patras, where he is also completing his Ph.D. on the subject of ‘Timber reinforcements in Byzantine masonry structures”. He has worked on the restoration projects of a number of important Byzantine monuments in Greece and Turkey, and has also presented papers in a number of Greek and international conferences.

The presentation will be in English.