Dimitrios G. Sampson was born in Athens in 1965. He holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace (1989) and a PhD in Engineering from the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, UK (1995). He has served at the Department of Digital Systems as Professor (Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor) and Adjunct Assistant Professor since October 2001. He has served as Professor and Research Director at the School of Education, Curtin University, Australia (2015-2017), Visiting Professor at: University of Tartu, Estonia (2017), The University of Hong Kong, P.R. China (2016), University of North Texas, USA (2013), Beijing Normal University, P.R. China (2013), Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China (2013), University of Tunis, Tunisia (2012, 2013), National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan (2011), Athabasca University, Canada (2010), and as Researcher (1999-2003) and Research Associate (2003-2016) of the Information Technologies Institute of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas.
Since 1996 his research activity has focused on digital systems that support learning and education. He is the author or co-author of more than 345 scientific articles in scientific journals, books and conferences and has edited 19 scientific books published by Springer, 30 special issues of international scientific journals and 45 international conference proceedings, with more than 8700+ citations and an h-index of 43 (Scholar Google, February 2023). He has received 10 Best Paper Awards at international scientific conferences for his research in the field of digital systems for learning and education. He has been invited as a keynote speaker at 120+ international and national scientific conferences and postgraduate programmes since 2001. He has participated or participates in 70+ research and technological innovation projects as researcher, research director or project director. Since 2003 he has successfully supervised 100+ postgraduate students and doctoral candidates in their research and has guided 75+ undergraduate students in their diploma theses.
He has served as Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology (2008-2011, 2015-2018), Secretary of the Board of the Hellenic Scientific Association of Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ETPE) (2007-2014) and Editor-in-Chief (2003-2018) of the international scientific journal Educational Technology and Society Journal (ranked 5th worldwide in Scholar Google Top Publications in Educational Technology). He has also served or serves as a member of the Editorial Board of 26 international and national scientific journals, Chair or Member of the Organising Committee of 85+ international scientific conferences and Member of 600+ Programme Committees of international/national conferences.
The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) he developed, offered through edX (Analytics for the Classroom Teacher), has attracted 25000 participants from 180 countries since October 2016. In 2018-2021 he led an international consortium of universities and industry (Learn2Analyse) aimed at promoting Educational Data Literacy for all education professionals, with the support of the European Commission (Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance Programme).
In July 2012 he received the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award and in January 2013 he was awarded the title of IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member in recognition of his contribution to the field of digital systems for learning and education.
In September 2018 he received the annual Golden Nikola Tesla Chain Award 2018 for International Outstanding Achievements in the field of Engineering Pedagogy from the International Society of Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) for his contribution to the use of Digital Technologies in Engineering Education.