Karampelas, Antonios, Faculty, Science, Division Chair of Technology
Dr. Antonios Karampelas holds a B.Sc. in Physics and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). His research career includes projects funded by the European Space Agency at NKUA and the National Observatory of Athens, as well as research grants from NKUA. His scientific work covers the Gaia space mission, extragalactic astrophysics, data mining, and machine learning. He has published nearly ninety works — journal articles, book chapters, and conference contributions — and his astrophysics research has been cited more than 28,000 times (Google Scholar; H-index: 16), appearing in journals such as Astronomy & Astrophysics and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. His educational research has been published by AIP Publishing, IGI Global, the Irish Journal of Technology-Enhanced Learning, the European Distance and E-Learning Network, the Proceedings of EdMedia, the International Schools Journal, Business Partners, the MSA Accreditation Newsletter, and Medium. He has served as a reviewer for academic journals in both fields, delivered the keynote "AI and Critical Thinking in Fighting Disinformation" at the National Multiplier Event of the S.HI.E.L.D. vs. Disinfo Erasmus KA2 project at NKUA (2025), and taken part in expert panels and podcasts, including the Inside Learning series.
At ACS Athens since 2016, he teaches IB Physics, Physics 1 and 2, and the Artificial Intelligence and STEAM–Modern Technology Topics Academy courses, which he designed and developed himself. He introduced Artificial Intelligence into the ACS Athens curriculum in 2018 and launched the school's standalone AI course in 2024. At university level, he teaches Learning Analytics in the MA in Learning Design and Technology at the American College of Greece. He taught Artificial Intelligence in Education in the MSc in Educational Applications with STEM Epistemology at the University of Thessaly and ASPETE, contributed into the development of the Artificial Intelligence and Education professional development course for teachers offered through Learn Inn, NKUA's Center of Continuous Education and Lifelong Learning, and served as a lab instructor for Physics 2 and Introduction to Astrophysics in the NKUA Department of Physics.
He has held a range of leadership roles at ACS Athens. He served as Chair of the Division of Technology (2024–2026), Coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence Framework (2020–2024), Accreditation Internal Coordinator, and Action Research Coordinator, and currently serves on the Responsible AI in Learning (RAIL) team, the AI Ethics Committee as Technology Specialist, and the school's Strategic Planning team. Through the RAIL team he contributed to ACS Athens becoming one of the first ten schools worldwide to earn the RAIL endorsement, the first AI endorsement for schools, established by the Middle States Association. He led the spACS program, which sent student-designed experiments aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule on two consecutive flights in 2019 and drew media coverage in Greece and the United States. He also coached the student team that took first place in the inaugural Aerospace Contest of the Hellenic Physical Society in 2018, and has guided student research projects from first idea to publication.
Dr. Karampelas works on bringing Generative AI and Learning Analytics into teaching and on building AI curricula. He is developing the 4Think (4T) Framework, which sets out new thinking paradigms for AI education — machine learning thinking, generative thinking, and agentic thinking — alongside computational thinking.
email: karampelasa@acs.gr