Charis Psaltis is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cyprus.
Charis studied Psychology and Education and undertook graduate studies in Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge (MPhil, 2001 and PhD, 2005). He also worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Oxford Center for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
He is co-author of “Interaction, Communication and Development: Psychological Development as a Social Process” published by Routledge and co-edited two other books on history teaching in post-conflict settings and the role of human relations in human and societal development.
Charis is a Founding Member and Director of the University of Cyprus Centre for Field Studies and a member of the Bi-communal Technical Committee of Education since 2016. He has studied bi-communal relations in Cyprus and other deeply divided post-conflict societies from a social psychological perspective since 2006.