Stelios Kesidis holds a BSc in Cultural Heritage Conservation from the Technological Educational Institute of the Ionian Islands, Greece. He completed his undergraduate studies with an internship at the Conservation Laboratory of Byzantine Icons and Icons at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki in 2016. In 2020, he finished his postgraduate studies in Cultural Heritage Materials & Technologies (Cult-Tech) at the University of Peloponnese. For two years, he worked as a cultural heritage conservator at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Evros and Florina. Presently, he is a PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Archaeometry, University of Peloponnese, with a research focus on chemical analysis of oil paintings by Greek painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Kesidis also serves as an adjunct in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Peloponnese.