Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca
is an Educator and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the European University Cyprus. After receiving her Bachelor Degree in Education, she gained a scholarship from Leventis Foundation she continued her postgraduate studies and received a Master’s in Education from Reading University, U.K. with specialization in language and communication. She also received her PhD in Developmental, Educational and Cognitive Psychology from Cardiff University, U.K. She is currently working in a second PhD in Psychology of Religion at the Kapodistrian University of Athens. Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca has published 6 books and has also published various articles in Greek and International Journals and has participated in dozens of international and local conferences. Dr Papaleontiou-Louca has also given many lectures and radio and television presentations in topics of her specialization. and presents her own radio-program on Pedagogical and Psychological Issues.
E-mail: E.Papalentoiou@euc.ac.cy
Panayiota Metallidou
a Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Applications in Education in the School of Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She teaches among other courses Research Methodology in Behavioral and Social Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, and Critical Thinking since 2006. She has more than 20 years of research experience in the field of Cognitive and Educational Psychology in the School of Psychology and in Educational Departments in Greece. Her research interests include metacognition and self-regulated learning and critical thinking, attention development and meta-attention, social cognition, epistemological thinking in children and adolescents, achievement emotions, coping strategies and affect regulation in educational settings. She has supervised several doctoral and master thesis. She has participated in international and European funded research projects and she is the author and/or co-author of more than 60 scientific publications in international and Greek journals and books as well as of more than 100 presentations in international and Greek conferences. She is at the Editorial Board of the Journals “Metacognition and Learning” and “New Ideas in Psychology” and reviewer in several international journals.
e-mail: pmetall@psy.auth.gr
Kalypso Iordanou
is Professor in Psychology and Director of the UCLan-CY Cognition and Development Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University in New York. Her research interests include cognitive and metacognitive development. Her work has been funded by the European Commission and the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF). Currently she is involved in three HORIZON-Europe projects – examining public trust in science (VERITAS), how social media influence decision-making (SMIDGE) and promoting research ethics (BEYOND) – and in a project funded by RIF on developing argument skills. In 2015 she received the Cyprus Research Award Young-Researcher by RIF.
E-mail: K.Iordanou@uclan.ac.uk
Mary Koutselini
is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, the president of the Cyprus Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation (CYQAA), Chair holder of the UNESCO chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment of the University of Cyprus. She is also the Coordinator of 15 International, European and National Research programs in the areas of her specialization and active member of a number of national, European and international academic associations and editorial boards of scientific journals.
She participates as expert in national and international working groups and advisory boards and networks. She served as head person of the Center of Learning of the University of Cyprus, of the Department of Education and as external evaluator of Universities, Research, and academic staff in Cyprus and abroad. She has authored 15 books and more than 150 articles and invited chapters in scientific refereed journals and books.
E-mail: edmaryk@ucy.ac.cy
Plousia Misailidi
is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina. She holds a PhD in Psychology and an MA in Education from the Institute of Education, University of London (UK). Her research mainly focuses on children’s theory of mind as a dimension of metacognition and their developing awareness and understanding of emotions. She is author of a book [in Greek] on the development of theory of mind in childhood, co-editor of a book on metacognition, and guest-editor of a volume on young children’s theory of mind. She has published papers in national and international journals on these topics and has been a member of the scientific committees of several national and international conferences.
E-mail: pmisailidi@gmail.com
Piedade Vaz Rebelo
is assistant professor at the University of Coimbra, expertise on Educational Psychology, Teacher Education. She participates in international and national projects, either as coordinator and participant, namely, she coordinated the research project: QueSTions, aiming to characterize students questioning and metacognitive processes when reading scientific texts. She is responsible for disciplines at the Teacher Education Master Courses, Educational Sciences bachelor, master and PhD courses.
She is author of several papers and chapters books in international and national publications. She is also an External Evaluator of Schools, collaborating as expert with the Education Inspectorate.
E-mail: pvaz@fpce.uc.pt
István Zsigmond
is assistant professor at Sapientia University, Romania. He is graduated in psychology, and special psychopedagogy. He also has an MD in Institutional Communication and Educational Management. His research activity is oriented toward developing and testing new educational methods, aimed at improving learning-centered communication in classroom settings. He has 15 years of experience in teaching psychology and related disciplines like educational psychology and developmental psychology. He has also experience in elaborating and accrediting training courses for in-service teachers. He has worked as a monitoring and facilitating expert in several school-development programs in Hungary and Romania. He also has five years’ experience in monitoring national-level EU projects (PHARE program) working as Local Implementation Agent for external monitoring companies contracted by the Romanian Ministry of Education. He is the author of 4 books (two of them in the area of metacognition), 6 book chapters and 24 scientific articles.
He has developed several programs for improving metacognitive thinking in educational settings, and also elaborated an evaluation method for measuring metacognition in thinking.
E-mail: zsigmond.istvan@ms.sapientia.ro
Ágnes Bálint
is Associate Professor at University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She has MA degrees in Psychology and Teacher of Hungarian and English, PhD in Psychology. University Courses: My main subjects are Educational Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Arts. I teach these subjects both in Hungarian and in English. I teach on BA, MA as well as on PhD level. Areas of professional interest: cognitive neuroscience, psychology of learning and teaching (including metacognition), cognitive psychology, psychobiography, psychology of literature.
E-mail: balint.agnes@pte.hu
Graça Bidarra, PhD
Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, expertise on Educational Psychology, Socio-cognitive processes, Teacher Education and Inclusive education. She is responsible for curricular units at the Educational Sciences Bachelor Master and PhD Courses and at the Teacher Education Master Courses, supervising theses and researches on those scientific areas. Participation in international and national projects publishing papers in national and international journals
