Dimitris Pnevmatikos (M) is a Professor of Developmental Psychology and the Head of the DP. He has been involved in many European (FP6, HORIZON2020, and ERASMUS+ as a Coordinator) and national research projects, aiming to propose and validate innovative, evidence-based teaching approaches and to train preservice teachers to be confident in designing and implementing new ideas in their everyday educational practice. He is a coordinator of the ERASMUS KA2 project for Critical Thinking in HEI to meet the needs of the labour market (Think4Jobs). He has worked on how teachers’ decisions inside their class result in negative or positive emotions in their students and how these emotions might increase or deplete their executive functioning (e.g., inhibitory control). He has served as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EALRI) and as a Coordinator of the Special Interest Group Moral and Democratic Education. He has been the elected President of the Association for Values and Knowledge Education.