Andreas Demetriou is Professor Emeritus of Psychology of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus
and an Honorary Professor of Durham University, UK. He was a professor of psychology at
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, (1975-1996), the University of Cyprus (1996-2008),
and President of the University of Nicosia Research Foundation (2011-2016).
He served in top academic or administrative positions, such as Vice-Rector and
Acting Rector of the University of Cyprus, foundational President of the Cyprus University of Technology,
President of the Conference of Rectors of the Universities of Cyprus and also
Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus (2008-2011). He is a fellow of Academia Europaea
and the International Academy of Education, an Honorary Doctor of Middlesex University London,
and an Honorary Visiting Professor of the Northeastern Normal University, China.
He developed a theory of intellectual development integrating the developmental, psychometric,
and cognitive traditions and he is currently working along several lines,
including basic processes underlying different cognitive domains, the educational implications of the theory,
and relations between intellectual and brain development. This work is published in about 200 books and articles.
The journals New Ideas in Psychology (1998), Developmental Review (1999), Developmental Science (1999),
Educational Psychology Review (2011), Intelligence (2013), and Human Development (2018) devoted special issues
in the discussion of his theory of intellectual development.
