Evangelia Adamou


Evangelia Adamou is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, specializing in language contact and endangered languages.

Biography

Adamou studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Paris Descartes University. After working as a teaching assistant and then lecturer at Paris Descartes University, she became a junior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 2005, and was promoted to senior researcher in 2015.
In 2022 Adamou was elected as an ordinary member of the Academia Europaea.

Research

Adamou's research centers on the analysis and description of under-described languages, with a focus on language contact and multilingualism, employing both corpus-based and experimental methods. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Balkans and in Mexico. She is currently Principal Investigator on a major French-Russian joint project to create an atlas of the Balkan linguistic area, together with Andrey Sobolev.

Selected publications