Ianthi Maria Tsimpli#
| Membership Number: | 7100 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/imt20 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6015-7526 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Professor of English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2016 - present Professorial Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2013 - 2015 Professor of Multilingualism and Cognition, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK
- 2005 - 2015 Professor of Psycholinguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece
- 2000 - 2005 Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics
- 1997 - 2000 Assistant Professor of Psycholinguistics
- 1995 - 1997 Ass. Director of Research (permanent post), Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1992 - 1995 Lecturer in Linguistics (permanent posit), School of English, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Language education
- Autism
- Developmental Language Disorder
- Language Attrition
- Bilingualism and Multilingualism
- Language and communication difficulties
- First and Second Language Acquisition
- Language processing
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Elected Ordinary Fellow of the British Academy
- 2016 Professorial Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
- 2019 - 2020 Visiting Professor, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- 2017 Honorary Professor, University College London
- 2016 Emeritus Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- February - July 2012 'Guest of the Rector' Fellowship, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) –
- January - June 2006 Visiting Professor at Dept. of English Studies, University of Cyprus
- May - June 2005 Visiting Professor, Collaborative Research Center on Multilingualism, University of Hamburg, Germany
- 1997 - 2002Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge




