Alexis G. K. Savvidis

Alexis G. K. Savvides (Athens, 1955), Master of Philosophy from King's College, PhD from the University of Thessaloniki, is a Byzantinologist and historian. He is a professor of Byzantine and medieval history at the University of the Aegean (Rhodes). From 1995 to 1999, he taught Byzantine and medieval history at the University of Athens (Department of Primary Education), and since 1997, he has been teaching (biennially) Byzantine history and Byzantine-Islamic relations at the Department of Greek and Latin Studies at Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, South Africa. From 1985 to 2001, he was a researcher at the Center for Byzantine Research of the National Research Foundation (Athens), and in 2001, he was elected associate professor at the University of the Aegean (Department of Mediterranean Studies/Rhodes), where he became a full professor in 2005. He has taught at universities in Greece and abroad and has participated in many international scientific conferences. He is the editor of the journal "Byzantine Domos" and the "Encyclopedic Biographical Dictionary of Byzantine History and Civilization." He has written books and studies/articles, particularly on Byzantine/Islamic relations (Arabs-Turks), Byzantine prosopography/genealogy, and the medieval history of Greece and the Near East, with his articles published in reputable international encyclopedic works. In 1997, he was awarded the First Abdi Ipekci Prize 1996-1997 for his contribution to the study of Byzantine-Turkish relations. Since 2008, he has been a regular contributor to "Polytoton" of the Union of Greek Composers and the monthly newspaper of the University of Athens "Here University," with various musical articles and chronicles, and since 2012, to the online musicological magazine "TaR."