Alkiviadis Ginalis is a Byzantine Maritime Archaeologist who specialises in seafaring and harbour studies of the Late Antique and medieval periods. He obtained his BA and MA in Byzantine Studies and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and his PhD at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology of Oxford University. After a Marie-Curie Fellowship with a European Union funded research project on 'Aegean Port networks of the Roman to Byzantine periods', he held a Research Fellowship at the Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. Currently he works as a Research Lecturer for Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Head of the Archives at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute.