Charalambos Bakirtzis is Ephor Emeritus of Antiquities. From 1964 he served in the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum, the Ephorates of Byzantine Antiquities of Central and West Macedonia, and East Macedonia and Thrace. As Ephor of Byzantine Antiquities of Thessaloniki he completed the project of restoring the monuments and conserving the mosaics, which had commenced after the 1978 earthquakes. Assistant and Associate Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1988-1998), Director of the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation (2011-). Director of the Greek Archaeological Mission at Agios Georgios Pegeia in Cyprus, founder and director of the Centre of Contemporary Archaeology and member of the Thessaloniki Writers Society.