Christos Katsifas graduated from the School of Chemistry of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.

He also studied conservation and restoration of antiquities and works of art at the Technological and Educational Institute of Athens. He holds a Master's degree in the conservation and restoration of works of art from the Faculty of Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2014, he is a PhD candidate at the School of Chemistry of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki with particular interests in the application of spectral analysis to the conservation of metal artifacts from ancient Macedonia.

From 1996 to 2010 we worked with the 10th Ephorate of Byzantine antiquities in the conservation and restoration of icons, murals and woodcarvings originating from Mount Athos. He designed and organized the conservation laboratory at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople, where he restored numerous artifacts belonging to the Holy Metropolis of Chalcedon.

He has also worked at the Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki and at the City & County Museum of Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom.

Since 2010 he runs the Archaeometry laboratory of the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki and publishes his work in scientific conferences and journals.