Dr. Anastasios Theodoropoulos is Assistant Professor at the Department of Performing and Digital Arts, University of the Peloponnese, where he teaches and researches in the fields of digital game development, immersive technologies, human-machine interaction, and character animation in digital environments. His academic and research work focuses on the creative application of game mechanics in education, virtual reality, and the arts.

His doctoral dissertation explored innovative teaching methodologies and the use of digital games for learning programming fundamentals, while his postdoctoral research specialized in developing personalized games to support computational thinking. As a research associate at the HCI-VR Lab, he contributes to projects that examine the relationship between technology, user experience, and culture through the lenses of digital games, interactive storytelling, and artistic expression.

He has extensive experience teaching computer science and programming (since 2006) in diverse age groups and cultural contexts and has received awards in national and international educational game design competitions together with his students. For over a decade, he was actively involved in the EU Code Week initiative as a National Ambassador, promoting the creative teaching of programming through games and interactive activities.

He has supervised and co-supervised undergraduate and postgraduate theses in the fields of game development and character animation, using tools such as Unity, Ren’Py, Godot, and Maya. His research interests include digital game development, player/user experience, digital character animation, game-based learning, VR-performance intersections, and the cultural applications of interactive and immersive technologies.

He has published in international journals and conferences and is active as an editor and reviewer in leading academic publications. He is a member of ACM, SIGCHI (and CHIGreece), SIGGRAPH, SIGCSE, DiGRA (and a board member of DiGRA CEE), IGDA, and ASIFA Hellas.

In October 2024, he co-organized the international conference CEEGS 2024 in Nafplio, titled “Reimagining Games, Art, and Performativity”, focusing on the creative intersections between games and the arts.