Despina Oikonomou is an assistant professor in the Department of Philology at the University of Crete. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English and American Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research interests focus on semantics and the interface with syntax and prosody as well as language acquisition and processing. She has presented her research at Greek and international conferences and has published in scientific journals, mixed volumes and conference proceedings.

Personal webpage: https://despina-oikonomou.com/