GRIGOROPOULOS IRAKLIS

He works as a laboratory teaching staff at the International Hellenic University (IHU), Dept. of Early Childhood Care & Education, Thessaloniki, Greece. He graduated from the psychology department of AUTh. He holds an MSc in counseling psychology (University of Manchester) and an MSc in developmental psychopathology in infancy and early childhood (medical school, AUTh). He also holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from AUTh and has completed postdoctoral research at Panteion University. He has worked for several years as a psychologist at ACHILLOPOULIO Hospital and the PAPANIKOLAOU general hospital (Child Psychiatry Department – Medical-Pedagogical Center). He has many years of teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at various universities (University of Thessaly, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panteion University, and the University of Western Macedonia). His research interests concern issues of gender in education, gender stereotypes, gender discrimination, and the understanding of social phenomena and difficulties of children by educators and students themselves. He has published more than 50 articles in scientific journals, and the citations to his work are over 100. He has participated in research projects funded by the European Union and the European Social Fund.