Joannis Kaliampos is a researcher in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and teaches History and English at a comprehensive secondary school in Winsen. He is the former educational project manager for the project Teach About US (2013-2021) and continues to serve as an advisor and teacher trainer for the project. He received a Staatsexamen degree in English and History (Gymnasium) from Justus Liebig University Gießen. Joannis has held teaching positions at a secondary school (Lahntalschule Lahnau), in the German program of the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith (Fulbright scholarship), and as writing consultant for international students (Justus Liebig University Gießen). In 2013, he was awarded the Hans Eberhard Piepho Prize for the U.S. Embassy School Election Project and he received the “Ausgezeichnete Orte – Land der Ideen” award 2015 for “Going Green – Education for Sustainability”. Joannis recently completed a PhD thesis on learner task perceptions and agency in blended learning EFL projects.