Our Team
University of Ioannina, Coordinator (Greece)
Evangelia Karagiannopoulou
Evangelia Karagiannopoulou is a Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Psychology, University of Ioannina. She carried out postgraduate studies (MA, PhD) in the UCL-Institute of Education, University of London. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She has been trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy (for children and adolescents).
She is Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Head of the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Studies in the University of Ioannina. Over the last years she has acted as a member of the Board of Directors of the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY); academic coordinator of a project funded by the European Commission and implemented by IKY.
For many years, her research interests were about teaching and learning in higher education with collaborations with institutions around Europe and the UK. Her recent research interest is focusing on mental health, emotion-emotion regulation and psychological variables related to interpersonal relationships along with learning.
She has published a book on learning, edited special issues, operated as an invited contributor in conferences and research papers and published a great number of studies in national and international highly cited journals in her discipline.
Fotios S. Milienos
Fotios S. Milienos is currently Assistant Professor in Applied Social Statistics and Quantitative Research Methods (tenure track) at the Department of Sociology of Panteion University, Greece. In 2013, he gained a "Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (IOF)" with title "Inference for a Semi-Markov Process using Hazards Specification" submitted under the invitation of the European Commission (2 years in Canada, 1 year in Greece). He has also participated as member of the research group in various research programs during the last years, such as the projects: a)“Platform for Advancement of Self”, Erasmus+, KA2- Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices (2018-...), b) “Erasmus + Role Models Program” of the State Scholarship Foundation, Greece (2017-2018), and c) “Patterns and Scans Theory in Molecular Biology, Reliability Engineering and Experimental Psychology”, General Secretariat for Research and Innovation, Greece (2014-2015). He has published more than 25 papers in international refereed journals, and a monograph with the publishing house Academic Press (Elsevier). Since July 2018 he is member of the Editorial Board (as Associate Editor) of the journals: Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation and Communications in Statistics-Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, published by Taylor & Francis, while he has also served as reviewer for 20 different journals published by Springer, Willey, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, and Sage, among others.
Pavlos Christodoulides
Dr. Pavlos Christodoulides completed his undergraduate studies in Psychology in the University of Ioannina (BA), and continued his postgraduate studies in the Institute of Education, University of London, UK receiving an MSc in Psychology of Education. He carried out his doctoral dissertation in the Medical Department in the University of Ioannina where he was awarded his PhD. Over the last 15 years he has been teaching as a Lecturer in the Department of Language and Speech Therapy in the University of Ioannina. He is a licensed psychologist and his interests focus mainly on the field of educational psychology, learning difficulties and the role of background music in studying. He has attended seminars on the effects of music therapy on the educational process and has publications in International and national highly cited journals. He has also presented his work in numerous national and international conferences. He has participated as a psychologist in a number of European and national projects (Erasmus+, ESPA, FP7-ICT-2011-8), and has been an Assessor of project proposals submitted in the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY).
Christos Rentzios
Christos Rentzios is a Primary School Teacher and a PhD candidate/researcher in Educational Psychology at the University of Ioannina, in Greece.
He has a 14-year experience in teaching at Primary School and his current research interests concern attachment style, academic emotions and emotion regulation. Now, he is participating in a 3-year (2018-2021) Ιnternational Project entitled “Platform for Advancement of Self-PAS”. In addition, he has been a scientific member of the pilot programme “Erasmus+ Role Models Programme” (January/February 2018).
Both projects are under the supervision of Prof. E. Karagiannopoulou.
Moreover, the last three years (2018, 2019, 2020) he is has been an external expert-evaluator on quality assessment of Key Action 1 (Mobility for School education staff) for the National Agency/ΙΚΥ, Erasmus+.
University of Antwerp, Partner (Belgium)
David Gijbels
David Gijbels is full professor of learning and instruction and associate research dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp. His research is situated within the research group EDUBRON and he teaches different courses in the master 'education and training sciences' (OOW). He is co-founder of the Antwerp Social Lab and co-ordinating the scientific research network on 'learning strategies in informal and social learning contexts'. He graduated from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Leuven, Belgium and started his professional career at the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands were he also defended his PhD on the 'effects of problem-based learning environments'. Before his current position, he was a researcher and professional developer at the Center of Excellence in Higher Education (ECHO) of the University of Antwerp. In August 2011 he received the Erik De Corte award for 'young and promising scholar in the science of learning and instruction' at the bi-annual conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) in Exeter (UK). From January-June 2015 he was a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Education of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. From 2014-2017 he acted as editor-in-chief of Educational Research Review and currently serves the editorial board of that journal. He also serves the editorial boards of Contemporary Educational Psychology, Vocations and Learning, Active Learning in Higher Education and New perspectives in Learning and Instruction.
Vincent Donche
Vincent Donche is a full professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Training and Education Sciences, University of Antwerp. Within the research group EduBROn, he conducts research in the domains of learning and instruction, higher education and educational measurement. He is supervisor of defended and ongoing PhD research in education sciences. In particular research on individual differences and development of learning and motivation, transition to and within higher education, effects of learning environments, and measurement methods (survey, eye-tracking and comparative judgment). He teaches educational research methodology courses (quantitative & qualitative research). He is (co-) chair of the master programme Training and Educational Sciences and is active in diverse academic services for the society.
Leen Catrysse
Leen Catrysse is an assistant professor at the group Online Learning and Instruction at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the Open University in the Netherlands. She graduated from the Master Training and Education Sciences of the University Antwerp, Belgium in 2014. After that, she was a member of the research group EduBROn at the department of Training and Education Sciences at the University of Antwerp where she defended her PhD and was working as a post-doctoral researcher until the end of 2020. Her PhD was about bridging online and offline measures to investigate student learning. More specifically, she used eye-tracking to uncover differences in students’ levels of processing when learning from texts. Since 2017, she acts as assistant editor for Educational Research Review. Since 2019, she is coordinator of the special interest group ‘Online measures of learning processes’ of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI).
Margot Chauliac
Margot Chauliac is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2015. She is a member of the researchgroup EduBROn at the department of Training and Education Sciences In her PhD research she focuses on gaining more insight into the process of completing self-report questionnaires on student learning and the quality of the resulting data.
University of Turin, Partner (Italy)
Claudio Longobardi
Claudio Longobardi, PhD, is a Researcher and Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Turin. His main research interests are the study of learning and instruction, the teacher-student relationship quality, the bullying behavior and measurement methods in Psychology and Educational Sciences. He is Chair of the Master Programme “Training in atypical child development”. He is supervisor of defended and ongoing PhD research in psychological sciences. Over the last 10 years, he has been a member of many international peer reviewed journals. He published more than 100 indexed scientific papers together with national and international colleagues, books, book chapters and presentations in international conferences. He won many national and international projects funded by the European Commission.
Sofia Mastrokoukou
Dr. Sofia Mastrokoukou holds a PhD degree in Sociology from the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Additionally, she has a MSc in Public Policy and Social Change (Collegio Carlo Alberto), a Laurea Magistrale in International Studies from the University of Turin, a Master of Science (Master di secondo livello) in Educational and Psychological Methods from the University of L’Aquila and a BA in Linguistics (University of Ioannina). From 2016, she works in various HEIs as a Junior Researcher and Proposal Writer for EU funded projects in Italy (e.g., University of Turin, University of Florence). Furthermore, she worked for more than 4 years as Career & Education Counsellor –Disability Advisor at the Career Office of the University of Piraeus. She was responsible for strategic planning and management (organizational and financial planning and control, budgeting, resource allocation, leading human resources, promotional activities). She is President of Microkosmos - Hellenic Community of Turin. She has participated in many oral conferences, has published papers in international scientific journals, and has participated in the writing team for the development of the First Practical Guide for International Signs in collaboration with the Turin Institute for the Deaf. She has been selected to participate in the UN Educational Program for political scientists from around the world as regards the Sustainable Development 17 Goals, as well as in a training program on Gender Equality in the Work Environment conducted by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Her academic interests include quality management and teaching effectiveness in HEIs, creative cross-cultural communication and comparative analysis of European legislation on people with disabilities.