Dimitrios Kourtis

Dr. Dimitrios Kourtis is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling, where he has been since September 2017. He holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Birmingham (UK), an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Aberdeen (UK), and a BEng in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). Prior to his current role, he held postdoctoral positions at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), University of Ghent (Belgium), Donders Institute (Nijmegen, Netherlands), and served as a research associate at the University of Birmingham.

His research focuses on joint action planning, using EEG to investigate how individuals coordinate actions and form predictive representations of co-actors' actions. Key interests include social cognition (e.g., joint attention, error processing), object affordances, and the influence of handedness consistency on motor cognition. He is affiliated with the Cognition in Complex Environments research group and contributes to the Mobile Cognition research program.

Recent work explores neural mechanisms in Parkinson’s disease, motor performance in sports (e.g., golf putting), and dynamic social neuroscience. His publications span topics from EEG applications in real-world settings to clinical implications of affordance processing. Kourtis’ research emphasizes bridging neuroscientific methods with naturalistic behavioral studies, advancing understanding of human interaction and motor control.