Passing Knowledge On

Christos Zahopoulos is Associate Professor at Northeastern University, with a joint appointment in the 
College of Engineering and the Department of Education. He also is the Founder and Executive Director
of Northeastern University's Center for STEM Education (www.stem.neu.edu), a university-wide Center, 
which aspires to improve STEM Teaching and Learning in K-20 and beyond, both locally and nationally. 
For more than 20 years, Professor Christos Zahopoulos has been actively involved in STEM Education at 
the national and state levels, playing a key role in initiating and implementing numerous STEM 
Education programs and partnerships, which have received close to $30 million in grants and gifts from
foundations, school districts, corporations and individuals. Most of these programs and partnerships 
focus on bringing about STEM education reform, especially in the area of teaching and learning. One of 
these, RE-SEED, is a unique program that recruits and trains retired STEM professionals to support 
teachers and students in the classroom as volunteers. Since 1991, RE-SEED volunteers have offered 
nearly 750,000 hours of their time working with more than 150,000 students in over 100 school districts 
in 12 US states. 
Professor Zahopoulos has received numerous honors and awards, including being appointed by the 
Governor of Massachusetts to serve in his STEM Advisory Council (2010), co-chairing the state’s “K-12 
STEM Education Frameworks/Standards, Curriculum and Assessment” Subcommittee. He is also the 
recipient of IEEE’s 2010 Professional Achievement Award for Individuals and has been selected as a 2011 
Massachusetts Academy of Sciences Fellow. Furthermore, he serves in the Advisory Board of the 
National Science Resources Center, the statewide STEM Operations Board and in the Next Generation 
Science Standards State Advisory Group. 
Professor Zahopoulos received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Northeastern University and was a 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University