Assistant Prof. Athena (Nadia) MACHA-BIZOUMI  read History and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina and was awarded a doctorate in Folklore Studies from the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace in 2011. In 2006, she completed a course in Museum Science at the Hellenic American Educational Foundation. She was a member of the teaching staff of the University of West Attica (Technological Educational Institute of Athens, 2013-2017), and has also taught on Post-Graduate Programs (“Folklore”) of the University of Athens (2014-2017). She has taken part in research projects related to the recording, documenting and digitizing of museum-type costume collections belonging to the Dora Stratou Greek Dance Theatre and the Museum of the History of Greek Costume. She also worked with the National Costume Archives. From 1997 to 2004 she worked in the Museum of the History of Greek Costume,  As of 2008, she has worked at PB cultural foundation as scientific supervisor of the “Silks of Soufli” section at the Soufli Silk Museum, and of the “Costumes of Mastichochoria”.  She has published articles on these subjects in Greek and international scientific journals, multi-author volumes and exhibition catalogues. She is a founder member and deputy chairwoman of the Hellenic Costume Society, and a member of the International Council of Museums, of the ICOM Costume Committee (ICC), and of the Greek Folklore Society.