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Kyriakos Savvopoulos
Dr. Kyriakos Savvopoulos, is a Research Fellow and Tutor in the Faculty of Classics, Oxford University. His research interests lie in the history and archaeology of the Hellenistic and Roman Alexandria, focusing on issues of identity, ideology and cross-cultural interaction. From 2009 until 2013, he worked in Alexandria, Egypt, as a researcher (Alexandria and the Mediterranean Research Centre) and lecturer (Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies) at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He taught courses in history and archaeology of Alexandria and Egypt, while being author or editor of several publications, including a new series of catalogues for the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria. He further worked as scientific advisor to two recently inaugurated Archaeological Museums in Alexandria and Cairo, and participated in excavations in the submerged coastline of Alexandria. Since 2014, he has been working as researcher and co-editor on the Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions from Egypt (CPI) project, based in the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (Oxford University), as well as Tutor of Classical and Hellenistic art in Queen’s College (Oxford University).