ATHANASIOS MOURATIDIS

Athanasios Mouratidis (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0325-8077) is a graduate of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science (TEFAA) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Department of Physiotherapy of Alexandrian Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki. He holds a master’s degree in Sports Psychology from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; he received his PhD degree from the same University in 2009. He worked as a rowing coach in sports clubs for seven years and as a physical education teacher in public education for 17 years. He served as an assistant professor at Hacettepe, TED and Bilkent Universities in Turkey before being elected as a tenured faculty member in 2021 at the Faculty of Physical Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) where he teaches Statistics courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests revolve around motivational issues. Specifically, how the social environment and individual characteristics interact with each other and predict human behavior. He has published a number of articles on this topic in international peer-reviewed journals. In the past he has received funding as principal investigator for two major research projects, each lasting three years. He is a member of the editorial board of four international SSCI journals and serves as Associate Editor of Learning and Individual Differences (ISSN: 1041-6080; 5 year IF: 4.20) and Educational Psychology: An international journal of experimental educational psychology (ISSN: 0144-3410; 2022 5 year IF: 3.90).

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