Panagiotis (Panos) Markopoulos holds a BA in Games Design and an MA in Virtual Reality from the University of Arts London, College of Communication, School of Design. He now pursues his PhD studies at the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Turku (Finland). His research is on process frameworks and metaverse technologies in VR using AI-supported and Avatar-based interaction in education applications for effective learning and student/user engagement.

His areas of interest are game design VR design, metaverse, concept design, gaming environments, script and storyboard scenarios, character development and concept realization.
He has professional experience in the game design industry as a member of a game design team at the Game Lab of the Turku University of Applied Sciences in Finland, as VR engineer at the Humanitarian Operations Ltd, Hope Games Division (UK), as game designer at the European Award Winner games company (Rebel Crew Games), and as UIUX designer at Sparthink Technologies (iOS/Android and Game Apps), and at EMPROSS Software Quality Engineering.
His interests and areas of expertise are: Creative Design, Concept Art, Storyboard, Web Design, Content Design, Computer Games Design, Gamification of business applications, and User interface design.

He has academic 18 publications in blind peer review international journals and conferences, all in the area of gaming, games design, virtual reality and metaverse.
He speaks English, Greek and German, and he is an EU (Greece) and USA citizen.