University of Patras
Department of Education & Social Work
Division of Psychology, Counselling & Social
Services
Patras, Greece
email: idimakos@upatras.gr
I teach courses in the undergraduate and
post-graduate program of study of the Department:
Research Methods in the Social Sciences
School Psychology
Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence
Psychology of Writing
School Psychology (Post-graduate)
Some of the most recent projects I have been
involved are as follows:
VIRTUOUS: Using Collaborative Virtual
Environments (CVE) to train teachers how to
manage challenging student behavior.
Gate-BULL: Using a games approach to teach
children about discriminatory bullying
ELN (European Literacy Nework): A Europe-wide effort to address
issues on reading and writing that started as COST Action IS1401
Gkintoni, E., Dimakos, I., & Nikolaou, G. (2025). Cognitive Insights from Emotional Intelligence: A systematic review of EI models in Educational Achievement. Emerging Science Journal, 8(Spec. Issue), 262–297. https://doi.org/10.28991/ESJ-2024-SIED1-016
Dimakos, I. (2024). Greek University students’ writing skills via a keyboard. ICERI2024 Proceedings (17th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation). 6940–6944. https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2024.1674
Willems, R., Sapouna, M., De Amicis, L., Völlink, T., Dehue, F., Dimakos, I., Priovolou, K., Nikolaou, G., & Rosinský, R. (2024). Encouraging positive bystander responses to bias-based bullying in primary schools through a serious game approach: A non-randomized controlled evaluation of the 'GATE-BULL' pilot program. International Journal of Bullying Prevention. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42380-024-00243-8
Gkintoni, E., Dimakos, I., Halkiopoulos, C., & Antonopoulou, H. (2023). Contributions of Neuroscience to Educational Praxis: A Systematic Review. Emerging Science Journal, 7, 146-158. https://doi.org/10.28991/ESJ-2023-SIED2-012
Kouznetsov, R., Angelopoulos, P., Moulinos, S., Dimakos, I., Gourzis, P., & Jelastopulu, E. (2023). Epidemiological study of autism spectrum disorders in Greece for 2021: Nationwide prevalence for 2 - 17-year-old children and regional disparities. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12, 2510. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12072510
Assante, D., Dimakos, I., Alexandridis, F., Doeller, M., Lytra, F. Gerth, S., Kourea, L., Madritsch, R., Papastamatiou, N., Skaloumbakas, C., & Steinbacher, H.-P. (2023). Virtual reality-based learning environments for teachers’ training. In M. E. Auer, R. Langmann, & T. Tsiatsos (Eds.), Open Science in Engineering: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (pp. 407–414). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 763. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42467-0_38
Dimakos, I., Alexandridis, F., Assante, D., Doeller, M., Gerth, S., Kourea, L., Madritsch, R., Papastamatiou, N., Skaloumbakas, C., & Steinbacher, H.-P. (2022). A collaborative Virtual Environment to train teachers in managing students' challenging behaviours. In G. Ubachs (Ed.), The Sixth Envisioning Report for Empowering Universities (pp. 39-41). EADTU. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6511424
Gkintoni, E., & Dimakos, I. (2022). An overview of cognitive neuroscience in education. Proceedings of EDULEARN2022 Conference (pp. 5698-5707). 14th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 4-6 July 2022, Palma, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2022.1343
Ralli, A. M., Dimakos, I. C., Dockrell, J. E. & Papoulidi, A. (2022). Teacher Practices for Teaching Writing in Greek Primary Schools. Reading & Writing, 35, 1599-1626. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10258-6
Gkintoni, E., Meintani, P. M., & Dimakos, I. (2021). Neurocognitive and emotional parameters in learning and educational process. Proceedings of ICERI2021 Conference (pp. 2588–2599). 14th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 8–9 November 2021. https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2021.0659
Koutrafouri, M., Papakonstantinopoulou, A., & Dimakos, I. (2021). Anxiety, self-efficacy, strengths and difficulties among fifth- and sixth-grade pupils in urban and semi-urban areas. Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 26(1), 88–101. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.26241
Dockrelll, J. E., Papadopoulos, T. C., Mifsud, C. L., Bourke, L., Vilageliu, O., Bevic, E., Seifert, S., Gasteiger-Klicpera, B., Ralli, A., Dimakos, I., Karpava, S., Martins, M., Sousa, O., Castro, S., Knudsen, H., Donau, P., Haznedar, B., Mikulajova, M., & Gerdzhikova, N. (2021). Teaching and learning in a multilingual Europe: findings from a cross-European study. European Journal of Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-020-00523-z