Polykarpos Polykarpidis was born in Chalkida in 1992. He is a PhD student of Byzantine Musicology in the Music Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, under the supervision of Prof. Demetres Balageorgos. The title of his thesis is “Theophanes Karykes and his Heirmologion”. His postgraduate degree was completed in the same department. He received a degree in Informatics from the University of Piraeus and is interested in a computational approach to musicology. He holds a degree in Byzantine Music, which he teaches at a Conservatory. Additionally, he participates in his university choir, the Maistors of the Psaltic Art. He plays the piano, is interested in philosophy and is an amateur epistemologist. He received a scholarship for the academic year 2019-2020 from the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece