Margarita Nazou is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Historical Studies of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. She holds a PhD in Aegean Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Belgium (Ghent University and Université Catholique de Louvain) and Germany (Bochum University). She has worked as a ceramic specialist studying prehistoric pottery in several survey projects in Attica (Thorikos and Porto Rafti), the borders of Attica and Boeotia (Mazi) and the Greek islands (Kea and Knossos). She has published three peer-review articles in Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures and Pharos, the Journal of the Netherlands Institute at Athens and several collective book chapters on the pottery from Thorikos.