Dr Nikolas Sarris is a senior book and paper conservator at the National Library of Greece.
He has been an Assistant Professor of book and paper conservation at the Department for the Preservation and Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Zakynthos, Greece and a conservator at the British Library where he took part in the conservation project of the Codex Sinaiticus.
He was the supervisor of the conservation laboratory at the monastery of St John Theologian, Patmos, Greece, where he also organized the “Patmos Workshops on Conservation and Historic Bookbinding”, 2006-2012.

He collaborated since 2001 with the Ligatus Research Centre, UK on bookbinding research related to the St Catherine’s Library Conservation Project in Sinai and since 2006 with the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation for conservation and training projects at the National Library of Egypt, Cairo.
He worked with Hamburg University on the EU funded project Ethio-SPARE for the preservation and on-site conservation of Ethiopic manuscripts from Tigray, Ethiopia. He has been an UNESCO and ALIPH Foundation consultant for training and manuscript conservation projects for libraries of Iraq and is an Expert Evaluator and Reviewer for the EU Commission on HORIZON projects. He has lectured and published widely on the topics of book conservation and historic bookbinding.