Dr. Papadopoulos pursued his graduate studies at the University of Alberta, Canada in Educational Psychology, where he also worked as Research Associate at the JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre. His research and teaching focuses on the study of learning disabilities and their treatment and specifically on (a) all aspects of reading development and dyslexia (development, cognition, and pathology), (b) attention deficits (attention, executive functioning, inhibition, and processing speed) and (c) the development of web-based cognitive remedial programs. He leads or participates in the consortiums of international projects which have been funded by both international and national agencies, among which are the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Foundation for the Advancement of Scholarship in Canada, the EU Intereg II funds, the FP6 EU funds for Applied Research Projects for Cyprus and FP7 EU infrastructure funds for the creation of new research centers in Cyprus. He has co-authored 3 books and has published over 60 scientific articles and book chapters (see http://store.elsevier.com/Cognition-Intelligence-and-Achievement/isbn-9780124103887/ for his most recent book by Academic Press). Dr. Papadopoulos has been visiting scholar at University of Tromsø (Norway), Queen’s University (Canada), University of Sheffield (UK), Jyväskylä University (Finland), University of Crete (Hellas), University of Alberta (Canada), and the Brain Imaging Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary).

Cognitive Skills Underpinning Reading Development Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, and Remediation Cognitive Development and Cognitive Planning Executive Functions in Children with ADHD Cognitive Remediation of Attention Deficits