Director of the Phivos Stavrides Foundation, Archives and Research Center, Larnaca. After his degree in the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (Accademia di Belle Arti) in 2003, Iosif Hadjikyriakos studied Art History the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. In 2017 he obtained the PhD in Department of History and Archaeology, section: Social Anthropoligy, of the University of Ioannina in the research field of Venetian fabrics in Ottoman Empire. Iosif Hadjikyriakos had a collaboration, during the period 2006 2008, with the University of Padua and the Municipality of Larnaca in a research program regarding the topographical evolution of the city of Larnaca during the medieval and post medieval periods. From the year 2007 to the present day he collaborates with the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus for a project of cataloguing the graffiti of the churches in the island. In 2012-13 he had a collaboration with the University of Cyprus, Department of History and Archaeology, Mrs. E. Igoumenidou-Rizopoulou professor of Folk Art and Architecture, in a project regarding the material culture of the Venetian subjects in Larnaca during the 18th century. Since 2016 he is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Cyprus. He also published a number of scientific articles in volumes and journals.