Dr. Dimitris Alimisis (male), is the Scientific Leader of EDUMOTIVA, former Professor of Educational Technology at the Education Department of the Higher School of Pedagogical & Technological Education (Patras, GR), former adjunct professor at the Hellenic Open University in the field of Science Education and currently adjunct professor at the post-graduate course “STEM Education” (Univerity of Patras, GR). He holds a B.Sc. in Physics from Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens, and PhD in Science Education from Dept. of Philosophy – Pedagogy – Psychology, Univ. of Athens. His research interests include educational technology, teacher training, and adult learning, with a focus on the use of robotics as tool for Constructivist and Constructionist learning. His teaching experience includes, among others, educational technology courses for teachers, Science Education in the Greek Open University, Didactics with new technologies in post-graduate courses at the Univ. of Athens, “Training of Trainers” in the field of adult education (Greek Open University), STEM Education master course (University of Patras). His research and educational works have been published in international scientific conference proceedings, books and journals.
Dr. Dimitris Loukatos (male) received the diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications and Computing, both from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He has worked as a research associate with the NTUA and the National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’. He also worked as a senior engineer for the Institute of Geodynamics of the National Observatory of Athens, enhancing the seismic sensor network. His research interests include hardware/software platforms evaluation and optimization, management and applications of wired and/or wireless (sensor) networks. His most recent work is focused on the area of IoT and Physical Computing. In parallel, Dr. Loukatos has more than 20 years of cumulative teaching experience, in secondary, vocational, adult and higher education, in the areas of computer architecture and programming, embedded systems (Atmel, Adruino, Raspberry Pi, UDOO, etc.), networking, robotics, human-machine interaction, STEM and STEAM project planning. His research and educational work has been published in many national and international scientific conference proceedings and journals.