Dr Ilias Karasavvidis is an Associate Professor on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Learning in Preschool Education in the Department of Preschool Education at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He leads the Information and Communication Technologies Research Unit of the Natural Sciences and Technologies Lab in the same Department. He holds an Honours degree in Teacher Education and a Masters degree in Educational Technology from the University of Crete, Greece, and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology from the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He was a Greek State Scholarships Foundation scholar from 1995 to 1999. His previous appointments included primary education (2001-05), the Department of Teacher Education of the University of Crete (adjunct staff teaching Educational Technology courses, 2001-05), and the School of Education of the Greek Open University (adjunct staff 2006-10; 2020-present).

He has taught undergraduate courses and lectured in graduate courses at the Universities of Thessaly, Crete, and Athens. His teaching experience is also extensive at the in-service teacher training levels as he has lectured in four major, EU-funded teacher-training programs over the last decade at the Universities of Thessaly, Patras, and Crete. He was the scientific supervisor of the three in-service teacher-training programs in ICT organized by the University of Thessaly between 2007-2019.

His professional activities involve one editorial board position, one guest editorial, and peer reviews for several international refereed journals. He has also served in the scientific and program committees for several international and national conferences. He is also a member in several international and national professional organizations. His primary research interests include ICTs and their applications to the teaching and learning process on the primary, tertiary and in-service education levels. More specifically, his current research interests involve ICTs as cognitive tools, learning and teaching with Web 2.0 technologies, learning with digital media, digital video, serious games, machine learning and Natural Language Processing.

He has published widely on technology-mediated learning in several areas of primary, tertiary, and in-service education. His work has been published in international and national refereed journals, books, and conference proceedings.