Eleni Orfanidou

MSc, Cognitive Neuroscience, Imperial College, UK; PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Eleni Orfanidou is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a researcher on language and neuroscience with experience in Greece and the UK. She has an MSc (Imperial College, UK) and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (University of Cambridge) and post-doctoral research experience at UCL, UK (Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Center). She has been an Assistant Professor at The American College of Greece since 2019. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Psychology Department. Her research interests include various aspects of psycholinguistics/ neurolinguistics. She has used fMRI and behavioural experiments to investigate the neural basis of word recognition in English, Greek, and British Sign Language.