Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou is Ephor Emerita of Antiquities. From 1965 she served in the Ephorates of Byzantine Antiquities of Thessaly, East Macedonia and Thrace, and Central and West Macedonia. During her service in the Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities of Thessaloniki she was systematically involved with restoring the Byzantine monuments and conserving the mosaics after the 1978 earthquakes. After the founding of the Museum of Byzantine Culture she was appointed director and undertook the museological study and the organization of its exhibitions. Concurrently, she became director of the European Centre for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments.