Emmanuel Vrontakis

BSc in Mathematics, University of Crete; MSc in Pure Mathematics, University of Patras; PhD in Pure Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece.

Dr. Vrontakis has been a member of Pierce – The American College of Greece since 1998, and has taught mathematics for secondary education (7^th up to 12^th grade). He also, currently, teaches Higher Level Mathematics at Pierce IB Diploma Program. He was a member of the Deree Math area faculty from 2013 to 2018, and had taught across the Mathematics area curriculum. He served as Head of the Department of Mathematics from June 2006 to June 2015. From July 2015 he served as Deputy Director of the Lyceum, from July 2016 he served as Vice Director of the IB DP and from July 2017 he serves as the Director of the IB DP.

He has presented papers at various conferences, workshops and congresses, and has published his scientific work in numerous proceedings in Greece as well as in international scientific magazines. He has been a member of Organizational and Scientific Committees in many congresses and a reviewer in scientific Journals. He is an active member of “Hellenic Mathematical Society” and of “American Mathematical Society”. He was awarded a graduate fellowship by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.), for a PhD dissertation in Pure Mathematics. He participated the research program “Konstantinos Karatheodory” at the University of Patras during the years 2001-2003. He was an instructor for in-service training for the new Math textbooks of Gymnasium, by the Greek Ministry of Education (September 2007). He has been certified by the Greek Ministry of Education (December 2013), for the use of digital tools in teaching process (training levels A, B). Finally, he was actively involved as a special expert in the Mathematics’ syllabus for the last class of Lyceum (12^th grade), by the Greek Ministry of Education (January 2015).