Dr. Giorgos Vavouranakis is an Associate Professor of Prehistoric Aegean at the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he has been a faculty member since 2012. He studied Archaeology and History of Art at the same Department (1993) and received his Master of Arts (1998) and PhD (2002) in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Sheffield. Vavouranakis has been adjunct faculty at the Universities of Crete and the Peloponnese and the Hellenic Open University, and has also worked as a contract archaeologist for the Greek Ministry of Culture.

His major research interests include Minoan Crete and the wider Aegean in the Bronze Age, archaeological theory and the history of archaeology as a discipline. He has participated as senior research associate in excavations and other field projects in Greece and Cyprus. Vavouranakis is currently directing a field project regarding a Minoan tomb complex at Apesokari, Crete, and is Deputy Director of the departmental excavation at Plasi in the area of ancient Marathon. He has published two monographs, five edited volumes and more than 40 research papers in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes.