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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). At Open University in Scotland, he is teaching courses on Thought and Experience. He is a Philosophical and an eLearning Consultant, with a specialization in Philosophical, Religious and Theological Studies. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Moral Philosophy) from the University of St. Andrews, a Master in Educational Studies from the Hellenic Open University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow. His Ph.D. topic was "The Metaphysics of Intentionality: Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language in Wittgenstein and Sartre". He taught Philosophy at a number of universities including the University of Glasgow in Scotland, the Universities of Athens, Pireus, and Patras in Greece, the Hellenic Open University, the American College of Thessaloniki, and the Free University of Bolzano in Italy. Dr. Constantinos has published actively in the field of Philosophy and Theology, including the book Ancilla Theologiae: Philosophy and Theology in Medieval times and the Byzantium. Dr. Constantinos has also contributed to many International Conferences in Philosophy and Theology in Greece, Russia, Romania, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Poland, and South Africa. He is a member of various Philosophical Societies and editorial boards of Philosophical Journals in the United Kingdom and abroad. Dr. Constantinos Athanasopoulos founded and developed, together with Professor Dan Chițoiu, (Al. I. Cuza University of Iași, Romania) and Professor Oleg Dushin (St Petersburg State University, Russia), St Gregory Palamas Seminar: International Research into the Philosophical and Theological Work of St Gregory Palamas. Starting with 2014, the ongoing Research Seminar had successful meetings in Greece, Mount Athos, Romania, Cyprus, Portugal, covering various topics related with the crucial work of St Gregory Palamas. As a result of these complex and multifaced investigations, he edited Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism: Philosophy and Theology in St Gregory Palamas’ Work (Cambridge Scholars, 2020), and Triune God. Incomprehensible but Knowable (Cambridge Scholars, 2015).