Vasilis Zakopoulos is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre Studies, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He studied Educational Sciences and specialised in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education, obtaining a Master of Arts (MA) and a PhD from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. He has also worked in primary education, including six years as a school principal, at ASPAITE from 2003 to 2006 as an Academic Associate, and at the Hellenic Open University in 2020-21 as Tutor-Counsellor for the course ETA50, from 2021 to 2024 for the course ETA60 “ICT in Education: online learning and e-learning”, and from 2025 to the present for ETA62 “Digital Media in Education and Communication”, serving as Coordinator during the winter semester.

His research interests, as well as the courses he teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level, include, among others, Theatre and digital and emerging technologies in education, Research Methodology in Theatre Studies, and Introduction to the Methodology of Theatre Research.

He is also the author of the book “Digital Technologies for Theatre/Drama in Education, the Supportive Role of Digital Media in Research and Practice” and has participated with presentations and published articles in many Greek and international academic conferences and scholarly journals.