Theocharidis Andronikos holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts from UCE in Birmingham, Institute of Art and Design (1998) and a Ph.D from the department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean (2009). He has taught art and art history related classes at the post-secondary education and since 2011 he has been working at primary education as an art teacher. Currently he is transferred to the department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean. He has taken part in various group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, as well as having two solo exhibitions as a painter. In his doctoral dissertation he studied the relation of art objects and heirlooms to collective memory and the construction of local identities. His research interests focus on the production and consumption of art products as well as the study of materiality and memory in the islandic communities of the Aegean Sea.