Musa Kadıoğlu was born in 1971 in Bafra. In 1989 he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Classical Archaeology of the Faculty of Letters at the Ankara University from where he graduated in 1994. He gained his master's degree from the same department in 1997. In 2002 he completed his Ph.D. entitled “The Scaenae frons of the theatre of Nysa on the Maeander” under the supervision Prof. Dr. V. M. Strocka at the Institute of Archaeology of the Albert-Ludwig University at Freiburg with scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the State of Baden-Württenberg (Landesgraduiertenförderung). His thesis was elected for the Günter Wöhrle Achievement Award in 2002 by a state foundation called “Humanismus Heute”. The book derived from the thesis (published in 2006 as Die Scaenae Frons des Theaters von Nysa am Mäander, Forschungen in Nysa am Mäander I) received the 2007 Encouragement Award of Turkey Academy of Sciences (TUBA). In 1995 he started his academic career as a research assistant at the department of Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Letters of the Ankara Universityand since 2006 he is working as an Associate Professor at the same department. Since 1990 he has been a member of the excavation teams of Stratonikeia, Magnesia on the Maeander and Nysa on the Maeander. Since 2010 he directs the research and restoration works in the ancient city of Teos in Ionia (Seferihisar/Izmir).