Athina Kritikou  studied antiquities and works of art conservator, graduate of the Petra vocational training institute. Since 2009 she have worked in the archaeological site of Knossos and the prehistoric site of Akrotiri, Thera, in the conservation laboratories of the Archeological Institute of Cretological Studies and of the Archeological Society of Athens, in the Aposelemis Cemetery Project of INSTAP, as well as in the conservation of several byzantine frescoes.