Klairi Gianniri is a researcher, museologist and cultural manager. She has a background in Cultural Communication and Technology (University of Aegean, Lesvos) and in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Freie Universität, Berlin). She holds a Masters degree in Museum Studies from the Department of History and Archaeology (University of Athens), while her PhD in the same department focused on Public Archaeology of the mountain and remote communities.
In recent years she has been a visiting doctoral student at the Ludwig Uhland Institute of Historical and Cultural Anthropology and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen). She has participated in numerous interdisciplinary conferences, research projects and archaeological excavations, in the role of heritage outreach coordinator. Over the last couple of years she is leading the archaeological ethnography project in Hierapetra region of East Crete, while during her participation in the START_Create Cultural Change Fellowship program in 2018/19, she organised and implemented an experiential archaeological festival (ArchaeoLogic) in the wider area. Last year, she was one of
the 30 selected participants for the UNESCO’s World Heritage Young Professionals Forum in Saudi Arabia.