YORGOS FACORELLIS

Yorgos Facorellis is a Professor in the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, School of Applied Arts and Culture, University of West Attica, Athens, on the field of “Chemical analysis and dating of archaeological materials”. He studied Food Technology at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens(1978-1982), Chemistry at the University of Thessaloniki (1982-1986), he continued his postgraduated studies (D.E.S.S.) at the Centre de RechercheInterdisciplinaired’ArcheologieAnalytique (C.R.I.A.A.) on the subject “Méthodes Physiques enArchéologie et Museographie”, University Bordeaux III (1988-1989) and then he obtained his Ph.D. in Physics on the subject “Stydy of conditions and parameters for high precision dating with radiocarbon”, at the Department of Physics, University of Patras (1989-1996).

Since 1989 2021 he has been member of the Boardof the Hellenic Society of Archaeometry (president 1999-2006 and 2020-today). He has been assistant researcher at the Laboratory of Archaeometry, Institute of Materials Science, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos” (1995-2004) and assistant Professor at the Department of History – Archaeology – Social Anthropology of the School of Human Sciences, University of Thessaly at Volos (2000-2011) and the Department of History and Archaeology of the School of Philosophy, University of Crete at Rethymnon (2004-2005 and 2010).

His areas of specialization are the radiocarbon dating and materials characterization with various physicochemical techniques. The results of his research have been published in international peer reviewed scientific journals, proceedings of international and national conferences and collective books.