George Georgiou

George Georgiou

George Georgiou is a professor in the faculty of education at the University of Alberta and the director of the J. P. Das Centre on Developmental and Learning Disabilities. He has also worked as an elementary school teacher and as an advisor to Alberta Education. His research focuses on preventing and remediating reading difficulties across ages and languages. He also explores the developmental dynamics between environmental factors (such as the home literacy environment) and affective factors (like motivation) in literacy acquisition.

Dr. Georgiou has received several research awards in his career. In 2015, he received the prestigious Richard E. Snow Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 15). In 2018, he received the Alberta Teachers’ Association Educational Research Award, and in 2020, the Killam Professorship. In 2024, he was awarded the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA) Distinguished Academic Award. Due to the societal impact of his work, Dr. Georgiou was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 2018 and received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2022.

Dr. Georgiou received a bachelor’s degree in primary education from the University of Cyprus, as well as a master’s and doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Alberta.