Prof. Eleni Vasilaki has studied Psychology at the University of Dundee and at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She is a member of staff at the Department of Primary Education, School of Educational Science at the University of Crete. Her research projects and collaborations evolve around the following axes: • Exploit the theories of dual coding and cognitive load from the field of cognitive psychology and coupling them with the theory of multimedia learning. Structuring an interactive learning environment for teaching and learning pragmatic texts in real classroom settings. • Investigating processes in relation to mathematics: (a) Ability to understand pre-mathematical concepts and relationships in students, assessing whether and to what extent they can understand pre-mathematical concepts of quantities and their relationships; (b) Relationship between different types of anxiety and students' metacognitive skills during problem solving, d) Writing as a problem-solving process and levels of anxiety in students with problems in writing production, e) Investigation of the mnemonic processes of students with learning difficulties in mathematics, g) Investigation of the effects of anxiety on working memory function and performance during numerical mnemonic tasks, h) Emotions related to mathematics of student population. In this context, we investigated the types of life events that cause stress and the coping strategies used by primary school teacher candidates when they