Curriculum vitae

Filippos Vlachos is a Professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece, where he has taught and conducted research since 1997 and Director of Educational Neuroscience and Developmental Disorders Laboratory. He has been elected twice as Head of the Department of Special Education, Director of the postgraduate program in Special Education, and had been member of the University of Thessaly Senate for six years. He is the author of the book Handedness: Myths and Reality (in Greek), editor of the book Brain, Learning & Special Education (in Greek) and co-editor in three more scientific editions. He has published more than 160 articles in referred national & international journals, book chapters and congress proceedings, with more than 1300 known citations. His research interests include the investigation of the neural mechanisms of reading, numerical cognition, attention and their attendant difficulties including learning difficulties and other developmental disorders as they relate to education, as well as the relationship between brain laterality and cognitive abilities.

Filippos Vlachos was born in Korinthos, Greece (1965). He holds one bachelor degree in Pedagogy (1984), and one in Biology (1988) from the University of Patras. In 1995 he obtained a post graduate diploma in School Psychology and Counselling (University of Patras), and in 1997 received his PhD degree from the University of Thessaly, Greece. Presently, he is a professor of Human Psychobiology at the Department of Special Education in the University of Thessaly, Greece, where he has taught and conducted research since 1997. His research interests concern, the psychobiological and neuropsychological approaches of learning difficulties and developmental disabilities, as well as the relationship between brain laterality and cognitive abilities. He is the author of the book Handedness: Myths and Reality (in Greek), editor of the book Brain, Learning & Special Education (in Greek) and co-editor in three more scientific editions. He has published more than 140 articles in referred national & international journals, book chapters and congress proceedings, with more than 1000 known citations. He is a member of 6 national & international scientific associations and he is acting as a reviewer for many international as well as for Greek peer review journals. He has also been involved for years in the pre-service and in-service training of teachers in the primary and secondary education. Today he is Director at the laboratory of the Learning, Language & Communication Disabilities in the University of Thessaly and Director at the postgraduate program “Education Sciences: Special Education”. He has been elected twice as Head of the Department of Special Education at the University of Thessaly and had been member of the University Senate for six years. Additionally, he has administrative experience as member for years in several University committees, scientific committees and organization committees of international and national congresses.

Research interests

The psychobiological and neuropsychological approaches of learning and developmental disabilities as well as the relationship between brain laterality and cognitive abilities.

SED courses

• Biological Bases of Development
• Psychophysiology
• Psychophysiology of Learning Disorders
• Physiology of Learning and Memory