Dr. Kostas Konstantopoulos was born in Athens (Greece). He finished his graduate studies in the USA (Washington State University, 1996) and his doctoral studies in Great Britain (University of London, 2004). For his doctoral studies received a full grant from the European Union. He has clinical experience working as a speech therapist for more than 15 years in various hospitals in Athens and Cyprus (Institute of Neurology and Genetics), specializing in acquired neurogenic and motor speech disorders.
He began his academic career as an assistant professor at the European University of Cyprus in 2011. He was a coordinator of the undergraduate and graduate programs there for over 3 years. Since 2019, he has been an associate professor at the University of the Peloponnese, chair of the speech therapy department from 2019-2021, 2023-today and member of various university committees. He has published many articles/chapters in international journals focusing on dysarthria/dysarthrophonia. He has written two textbooks published in the USA, one regarding neuroanatomy and neurophysiology in speech and hearing sciences (Plural, 2019) and the other regarding neuroimaging in neurogenic communication disorders (Elsevier, 2023). He has been a member of international associations including the British Neuroscience Association, the International Neuropsychological Society, the European Association of Parkinson's Disease (E.P.D.A), the Movement Disorders Society, and an international member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.