Demetrios G. Sampson

Demetrios G. Sampson
Professor, Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece

Demetrios Sampson is a Professor of Digital Systems in Learning and Education, the Director of the Master of Science Program on Digital Learning, and the Director of the Research Laboratory Digital Systems in Learning and Education (DiLearn) at the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, Greece. He has been a Professor and Director of Research at the School of Education, Curtin University in Australia (2015-2017) and a Visiting Professor in 8 Universities in 4 continents.

His research in Learning Technologies and Digital Education has a significant global impact. He is included in the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists in 2022 and 2023 in their fields according to the latest Stanford ranking based on Scopus data.

He is the co-author of 310+ books (2), journal articles (73), book chapters (57), and conference papers (180) with more than 9335+ citations and h-index 44 as listed in Scholar Google. He has authored or edited 21 scientific books published by Springer, accessed more than 550.000 times.

He has received 10 times the Best Paper Award in International Conferences on Learning Technologies. He has been a Keynote/Invited Speaker at 100+ International/National Conferences worldwide.

He has developed and delivered the Analytics for the Classroom Teacher MOOC offered by the edX platform (a Harvard and MIT-led global initiative) which has attracted more than 30.000 participants from 180 countries.

He is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award (July 2012) and named a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society in recognition of his contribution to the field of Learning Technologies. He is also the recipient of the Golden Nikola Tesla Chain Award of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) for "International outstanding achievements in the field of Engineering Pedagogy" (September 2018).