Dr. Iolie Nicolaidou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at the Cyprus University of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Educational Technology from Concordia University (Canada) and a Master’s degree in Educational Technology from Boston University (USA), where she studied as a Fulbright scholar. As a researcher in Educational Technology, her work focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of emerging technologies for learning. More recently, her work focuses on the design of serious games for conflict resolution.
Dr. Nicolaidou has been involved as a Principal Investigator (PI) or senior researcher in more than 10 projects focusing on digital tools designed for learning, funded by the European Union and Cyprus national grants (total of more than 9 Million euros in research funds). She has published more than 120 papers in international, highly-cited, peer-reviewed journals and in proceedings of international scientific conferences.