George Konstantakopoulos studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of Athens and specialized in psychiatry at the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens, Eginition Hospital. He has also been trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and specialized in Psychotherapy of Eating Disorders. He is a Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Athens Medical School.
He has worked as a scientific supervisor of psychosocial programs and as a trainer in training courses for mental health professionals that have been implemented in Greece, Denmark and Finland as part of the psychiatric reform program "Psychargos". Since 2008, he has been working as a scientific associate of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens at the Byron-Kessariani Community Mental Health Center and the Eating Disorders Unit. At the same time, he has been a research associate of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and of University College London. His main research interest are: insight (awareness of illness), cognitive functioning and, in particular, social cognition in mental disorders, meta-cognition and its relationship to psychopathology.
To date, he has published 78 papers in international peer-review journals and has participated in 6 scientific books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal “Psychiatriki” of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, Review editor of the Frontiers in Psychiatry, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience & Mental Health, member of the editorial board of the Social Neuroscience and the Greek journal Synapsis, and reviewer in many international scientific journals.
Since 2014, he has been the scientific supervisor of the annual post-graduate Course in Clinical Psychopathology "Panagiotis Oulis" of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens and the University Research Institute for Mental Health (EPIPSY). Since 2016, he has also been the supervisor of another annual postgraduate Course in Clinical Skills in Psychopathology "Panagiotis Oulis" organized by the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens and the Hellenic Psychiatric Association. Moreover, he has been teaching in post-graduate training programs for intern psychiatrists and other mental health professionals and in MSc programs in Greece and in UK.
