Eleftheria N. Gonida
Professor of Educational Psychology and Human Development and Chair, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Eleftheria N. Gonida studied Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium (Msc) and obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology from AUTh, graduating with honors. Her research interests include achievement motivation, self-regulated learning, cognitive and metacognitive development, parental involvement in children’s school life, and teacher professional development (mental health literacy and digital literacy). She recently began exploring how Aristotelian ‘Paideia’ can help us tackle global educational challenges and promote sustainable learning and youth resilience (PI of the Hellenic Team in the 2025-2026 NEH-HFRI Collaborative Research Grant, Aristotelian 'Paideia' and Global Educational Challenges: Revisiting the Past to Plan for Sustainable Education in the 21st-Century). Her work has been published in peer-reviewed international and national scientific journals and edited volumes and presented at numerous international and national scientific conferences. Dr. Gonida has given invited talks to Canada, Finland, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Serbia and USA. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific series ‘Advances in Motivation and Achievement’, member of the editorial board of the scientific journals European Journal of Psychology of Education, Metacognition and Learning, and the Journal of Experimental Education, and served as evaluator for the National Research Councils of Finland, Italy, France, Portugal, and Cyprus. She is a Fulbright Scholar (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2012), President of the Fulbright Scholars of Northern Greece, and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI, 2019–2023). She organized the International Conference on Motivation (2016), the Panhellenic Conference on School Psychology (2022), and the 20th EARLI Conference (2023, the largest conference in the association’s history), which was named the Hallmark Congress of the Year by the Thessaloniki Convention Bureau, and she was awarded the honorary title of Thessaloniki Ambassador 2023. Dr. Gonida has long administrative experience at AUTh (Erasmus Co-ordinator at the School of Psychology for more than 25 years, EPICUR co-ordinator at the School of Psychology, Chair of the European Educational Programs Committee for five years, member of the Research Ethics Committee for three years, current member of the Scientific Committee of the Teaching and Learning Center and EC member of the Child Care Center).