Nikos Liaros

Vice President of the Board of Trustees at the Center for the Study of Modern Ceramics.

Nikos Liaros is an archaeologist and ceramist. Born in Athens in 1974, he studied Archaeology and Art History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, followed a postgraduate degree at the University of Crete. Since 2004, he has been working for the Greek Archaeological Service, carrying out excavations and curating museum exhibitions. He conducted excavations in Boeotia, Argolis, Aetolia and Attica and has participated in working groups to set up exhibitions for the museums of Acropolis, Thebes, and Chaeronea. He currently works for the Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage at the Greek Ministry of Culture.

He acquired the skill of pottery-making initially from the traditional potters of Koroni and Crete and later he studied ceramics at the Centre for the Study of Modern Ceramics. He works mostly with wild clay and he is specialized in terra sigillata slips and woodfiring. He is the Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Center for the Study of Modern Ceramics. Since 2008, he has been curating exhibitions at CSMC, conducting research, organizing educational programs and teaching pottery to children and adults. His research interests are focused on Modern Eastern Mediterranean material culture and ceramics. He specializes in the research of Greek urban potteries and their socioeconomic context for the period between the 18th to the 20th centuries. He has published several papers, edited volumes and books, accessible via his page at academia.edu