2009: PhD in Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Philosophy, School of Philology, Department of Linguistics), Greece

Dissertation topic: Functional categories in Greek agrammatism

2003: MA in Applied Linguistics: “Teaching Modern Greek as a mother tongue and as a second/foreign language.” Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Philology, School of French Language and Literature, School of English Language and Literature, School of Philosophy and Education, & School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Greece

Dissertation topic: The suffix –ón(as) in Modern Greek: A morphological–psycholinguistic approach

1999: Bachelor in (Greek) Philology (Specialization: Linguistics). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Philosophy, School of Philology), Greece

Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus)                                 08.2020 –

Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Oslo (Norway)                                                          09.2019 –

Researcher at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) / Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus (USA)                      09.2018 – 04.2020

Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Health Professions

University of Oslo (Norway)                                                          09.2015 – 08.2018

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) / Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

University of Potsdam (Germany)                                                09.2013 – 08.2015

Marie Curie (Postdoctoral) Fellow in the Department of Linguistics/Center of Excellence in Cognitive Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)        04.2012 – 09.2015

Postdoctoral Fellow / Collaborator in the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, School of Philosophy

Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece (Greece)  02.2013 – 09.2015

Postdoctoral Fellow / Collaborator in the Department of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health and Welfare Professions

Technological Educational Institute of Epirus (Greece)                                                                                                         10.2010 – 09.2011

Scientific Collaborator (Adjunct Professor) in the Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Health and Welfare Professions 

University of Trieste (Italy)                                                                                                                                                         11.2007 – 06.2009

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, School of Philosophy

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Fyndanis, V., Cameron, S., Hansen, P. B., Norvik, M. I., & Simonsen, H. G. (2022). Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from academics. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, First View, 1–14. Doi: 10.1017/S1366728922000621
2. Fyndanis, V., Masoura, E., Malefaki, S., Chatziadamou, E., Dosi, I., & Caplan, D. (2022). The role of working memory, short-term memory, speed of processing, education, and locality in verb-related morphosyntactic production: Evidence from Greek. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 13, 851440. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.851440
3. Fyndanis, V., Miceli, G., Capasso, R., *Killmer, H. G., Malefaki, S., & Grohmann, K. (2022). Production of sentential negation in German and Italian non-fluent aphasia. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. Doi: 10.1007/s10936-022-09894-4
4. Themistocleous, C., Fyndanis, V., & Tsapkini, K. (2022). Sonorant spectra and coarticulation distinguish speakers with different dialects. Speech Communication, 142, 1–14. Doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2022.06.002
5. De Bot, K., Plejert, C., Simonsen, H. G., Fyndanis, V., Hansen, P., Norvik, M. I., Svendsen, B. A., & Svennevig, J. (2020). Multilingualism and ageing: An overview. Brill Research Perspectives in Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition, 1(4), 1–98. Doi: 10.1163/2352877X-12340003
6. Garraffa, M., & Fyndanis, V. (2020). Linguistic theory and aphasia: An overview. Aphasiology, 34, 905–926. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2020.1770196
7. Fyndanis, V., Messinis, L., Nasios, G., Dardiotis, E., Martzoukou, M., Pitopoulou, M., Ntoskou, A., & Malefaki, S. (2020). Selective verb-related morphosyntactic impairment in multiple sclerosis: Evidence from Greek. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 11, 2051. (13 pages) Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02051
8. Boumeester, M., Michel, M.C., & Fyndanis, V. (2019). Sequential multilingualism and cognitive abilities: Preliminary data on the contribution of language proficiency and use in different modalities. Behavioral Sciences, 9, 92. Doi: 10.3390/bs9090092
9. Fyndanis, V., & Themistocleous, C. (2019). Are there prototypical associations between time frames and aspectual values? Evidence from Greek aphasia and healthy aging. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 33, 191–217. Doi: 10.1080/02699206.2018.1480657
10. Fyndanis, V., Arcara, G., Capasso, R., Christidou, P., de Pellegrin, S., Gandolfi, M., Messinis, L., Papathanasopoulos, P., Panagea, E., Smania, N., Semenza, C., & Miceli, G. (2018). Time reference in nonfluent and fluent aphasia: A cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse LInking Hypothesis. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 32, 823–843. Doi:  10.1080/02699206.2018.1445291
11. Fyndanis, V., Arcara, G., Christidou, P., & Caplan, D. (2018). Morphosyntactic production and verbal working memory: Evidence from Greek aphasia and healthy aging. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 1171–1187. Doi: 10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-17-0103
12. Fyndanis, V., Arfani, D., Varlokosta, S., Burgio, F., Maculan, A., Miceli, G., Arcara, G., Palla, F., Cagnin, A., Papageorgiou, S., & Semenza, C. (2018). Morphosyntactic production in Greek- and Italian-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from subject-verb agreement, tense/time reference, and mood. Aphasiology, 32, 61–87. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2017.1358352
13. Rofes, A., Zakariás, L., Ceder, K., Lind, M., Blom Johansson, M., De Aguiar, V., Bjekić, J., Fyndanis, V., … & Howard, D. (2018). Imageability ratings across languages. Behavior Research Methods, 50, 1187–1197. Doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0936-0
14. Fyndanis, V., Lind, M., Varlokosta, S., Kambanaros, M., Soroli, E., Ceder, K., … Howard, D. (2017). Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test: Challenges and solutions. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 31, 697–710. Doi: 10.1080/02699206.2017.1310299
15. Brady, M.C., Ali, M., Fyndanis, C., Kambanaros, M., Grohmann, K.K., Hernández-Sacristán, C., Laska, A.-C., & Varlokosta, S., on behalf of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (2014). Time for a step change? Improving the efficiency, relevance, reliability, validity and transparency of aphasia rehabilitation research through core outcome measures, a common data set and improved reporting criteria. Aphasiology, 28, 1385–1392. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2014.930261
16. Fyndanis, V., Varlokosta, S., & Tsapkini, K. (2013). (Morpho)syntactic comprehension in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek. Aphasiology, 27, 398–419. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2013.770817
17. Fyndanis, V., Manouilidou, C., Koufou, E., Karampekios, S.K., & Tsapakis, E.M. (2013). Agrammatic patterns in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from tense, agreement, and aspect. Aphasiology, 27, 178–200. Doi: 10.1080/02687038.2012.705814
18. Fyndanis, V., Varlokosta, S., & Tsapkini, K. (2012). Agrammatic production: Interpretable features and selective impairment in verb inflection. Lingua, 122, 1134–1147. Doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.05.004
19. Fyndanis, V., Varlokosta, S., & Tsapkini, K. (2010). Exploring wh-questions in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 23, 644–662. Doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.06.003

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries

1. Fyndanis, V., & Lehtonen, M. (2021). Pathological language-switching/mixing and its relationship to domain-general cognitive control. In U. Røyneland & R. Blackwood (Eds.), Multilingualism across the Lifespan (pp. 209–230). Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism (edited by M. Martin-Jones & J. Pujolar). New York & London: Routledge. Doi: 10.4324/9781003125815
2. Fyndanis, V. (2019). Verbs. In J. S. Damico & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders (pp. 2041–2045). Thousand Oaks, USA: Sage Publications, Inc. ISBN: 9781483380834 Doi: 10.4135/9781483380810.n661
3. Varlokosta, S., Stamouli, S., Karasimos, A., Markopoulos, G., Kakavoulia, M., Nerantzini, M., Fyndanis, V., Pantoula, A., Economou, A., & Protopapas, A. (2017).  A Greek corpus of aphasic discourse: Design and multilevel annotation. In A. Christofidou (Ed.), Aspects of Corpus Linguistics: Principles, applications, challenges. – Δελτίο Επιστημονικής Ορολογίας και Νεολογισμών (pp. 181–205). Athens: Academy of Athens. (in Greek)

Abstracts in Peer Reviewed Journals

1. Soilemezidi, M., Chrisikopoulou, M., & Fyndanis, V. (2022). The role of cognitive functions, demographic factors, and locality in verb-related morphosyntactic production. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 27, Supplement 2, 259–262.
2. Pourquié, M., Arslan, S., Grima, R., Fyndanis, V., Kambanaros, M., Martínez-Ferreiro, S., Munarriz-Ibarrola, A., Norvik, M. I., Peñaloza, C., Python. G., Soroli, E., Sze, W. P. & the Mutlilingual Aphasia Practice (MAP) Group (Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists Working Group 2). (2022). The “MAP survey”: An international investigation of SLPs’ training and working practices to assess and treat plurilingual people with aphasia. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 27, Supplement 2, 100–102.
3. Fyndanis, V., Soilemezidi, M., & Kalpakidi, T. (2022). Impaired production of time reference in aphasia: Disentangling encoding from retrieval deficits. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 27, Supplement 2, 286–288.
4. Fyndanis, V., Messinis, L., Nasios, G., Dardiotis, E., Martzoukou, M., Pitopoulou, M., Ntoskou, K., & Malefaki, S. (2019). Impaired verb-related morphosyntactic production in Multiple Sclerosis: Evidence from Greek. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 24, Supplement, 121–124.
5. Fyndanis, V., & Themistocleous, C. (2019). Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic machine learning approach. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 56th Annual Meeting. Doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00075
6. Terzi, A., Barampati, H., & Fyndanis, V. (2019). Syntactic comprehension in Parkinson’s disease: Type of embedding and canonicity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 56th Annual Meeting.Doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00074
7. Fyndanis, V., Themistocleous, C., & Christidou, P. (2017). Time reference and aspect in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 55th Annual Meeting.Doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00080
8. Fyndanis, V., Arcara, G., Arfani, D., Burchert, F., Burgio, F., Cagnin, A., … & Wartenburger, I. (2016). Time reference in agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer’s disease: A cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse LInking Hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 54th Annual Meeting. Doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00097
9. Rofes, A., Zakariás, L., Ceder, K., Lind, M., Blom Johansson, M., Bjekić, J., Fyndanis, V., … & Howard, D. (2016). Word imageability from a cross-linguistic perspective. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 21, 158–161.Doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33521.68963
10. Fyndanis, V., Arfani, D., Burgio, F., Maculan, A., Palla, F., Varlokosta, S., … & Semenza, C. (2016). Morphosyntactic production in Greek and Italian probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from agreement, tense, and mood. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 21, 3–6.
11. Fyndanis, V., Semenza, C., Capasso, R., Gandolfi, M., De Pellegrin, S., Arcara, G., … & Miceli, G. (2015). Production of subject-verb agreement, tense, mood, and negation in Italian agrammatic aphasia. Frontiers in Psychology. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 53rd Annual Meeting.
12. Fyndanis, V., Semenza, C., Capasso, R., Gandolfi, M., Smania, N., Burgio, F., … & Miceli, G. (2015). Morphosyntactic and syntactic production in Italian-speaking agrammatic aphasia. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 20, 130–133.
13. Nerantzini, M., Fyndanis, V., Terzi, A., & Varlokosta, S. (2015). Case and agreement in Greek aphasia: Evidence from comprehension. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 20, 95–97.
14. Fyndanis, V., Nerantzini, M., Terzi, A., & Varlokosta, S (2014). Structural case in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 19, 35–38.
15. Fyndanis, V., Nerantzini, M., & Pavlidou, C. (2013). Morphosyntactic production in agrammatism: The role of non-local dependencies. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 94, 11–12. Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.09.002
16. Molympaki, E., Nerantzini, M., Fyndanis, V., Papageorgiou, S., & Varlokosta, S. (2013). Comprehension abilities in Greek-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidence from wh-questions and relative clauses. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 94, 131-132. Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.09.063
17. Fyndanis, V. (2013). Subcortical lesions and agrammatic aphasia: A case study in a highly inflected language. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 18, 39–43.
18. Fyndanis, V. (2012). Basal ganglia and linguistic performance: A case study. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 61, 252–254.Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.10.173
19. Fyndanis, V., Nerantzini, M., Pavlidou, C., Mihali, T., & Nasios, G. (2012). Investigating potential sentence length effects in agrammatic performance: Evidence from morphosyntax. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 17, 36–38.
20. Fyndanis, V., Manouilidou, C., Koufou, E., & Tsapakis, E.M. (2011). Grammatical disorders in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from verb inflection in Greek. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23, 221–222. Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.248
21. Fyndanis, V. (2010). Short-term memory and language processing: Extending an interactive model to capture sentence-level data. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6, 70–71. Doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.08.036
22. Fyndanis, V., Tsapkini, K., Varlokosta, S., Petropoulou, K., & Papathanasiou, I. (2006). Negation in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek. Brain and Language, 99, 162–163. Doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.06.090

Papers in Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1. Varlokosta, S., Stamouli, S., Karasimos, A., Markopoulos, G., Kakavoulia, M., Nerantzini, M., Pantoula, A., Fyndanis, V., Economou, A., & Protopapas, A. (2016). A Greek corpus of aphasic discourse: Collection, transcription, and annotation specifications. In D. Kokkinakis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2016 Workshop: Resources and Processing of Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/ Psychiatric Impairments (RaPID) 2016. Available PDF at http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/128/003/ecp16128003.pdf
2. Fyndanis, V., Nerantzini, M., Choudala, I., & Tsapakis, E. M. (2014). Production of functional categories in agrammatic aphasia and task-related processing demands: The role of ±distant cues. In G. Kotzoglou et al. (Eds), Selected Papers of the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (pp. 428–438). Rhodes, Greece: University of the Aegean.
3. Fyndanis, V. (2012). Comprehension in Greek-speaking agrammatism: A case study. In Z. Gavriilidou, A. Efthymiou, E. Thomadaki, & P. Kambakis-Vougiouklis (Eds), Selected Papers of the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (pp. 265-274). Komotini, Greece: Democritus University of Thrace.
4. Fyndanis, V., Manouilidou, C., Koufou, E., & Tsapakis, E.M. (2012). Tense, subject-verb agreement and aspect in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from Greek. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 32, 89–99.
5. Fyndanis, V. & Galiussi, F. (2011). Networks of canonical and mirror neurons and language teaching. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 31, 554–564. (in Greek) Available on-line: http://ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_PLIRI/MEG_31_554_564.pdf
6. Fyndanis, V. (2009). Tense, agreement and aspect in Greek agrammatism. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 29, 566–577. (in Greek)
7. Manouilidou, C., Fyndanis, V., Kehayia, E., & Ralli, A. (2009). Processing thematic features: From Derivation to Compounding. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, pp. 291–306. University of Ioannina.
8. Nikolaidis, Y., Fyndanis, V., & Kostikas-Tselepis, P. (2005). Lingubot technology: Development of virtual agents. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 25, 404–414. (in Greek)
9. Fyndanis, V. (2004). A psycholinguistic approach to the suffix –ón(as). Studies in Greek Linguistics, 24, 775–785. (in Greek)
10. Fyndanis, V. & Trachanopoulou, T. (2004). Statistics and Sociolinguistics: A study on the feminine occupational terms. 16th Panhellenic Conference of Statistics-Proceedings, Ε.S.Ι. (pp. 503–510), 30 April–3 May 2003, Kavala. (in Greek)
11. Fyndanis, V. (2003). The suffix –ón(as) in Modern Greek. Studies in Greek Linguistics, 23, 519–540. (in Greek)

EXTERNAL FUNDING

• Principal Investigator, Morphosyntactic Production in Stroke-induced Agrammatic Aphasia: A Cross-linguistic Machine Learning Approach, 48-month Project#287745 – FRIPRO (FRIHUMSAM) grant awarded by the Research Council of Norway – total budget: NOK 9,993,000 (2019 – 2023)

• Co-proposer and member of the psycholinguistic group, MultiLing Dementia: Language and Communication in Multilingual Speakers with Dementia in Norway. 36-month Project #250093 – FRIPRO (FRIHUMSAM) grant awarded by the Research Council of Norway – PI: Jan Svennevig – total budget: NOK 8,994,000 (2016 – 2020)
• Principal Investigator on the EU-funded Marie Curie project Grammar and Memory: Evidence from Agrammatic Aphasia and Probable Alzheimer’s Disease in German, Italian and Greek. 24-month Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development – Award from the European Commission: € 216,953 (2013 – 2015)
• Co-proposer and member of the “Neurolinguistics” group, Levels of Impairment in Greek Aphasia: Relationship with Processing Deficits, Brain Region, and Therapeutic Implications. 36-month Project #977 under “Thales”/National Strategic Reference Framework – PI: Spyridoula Varlokosta – total budget:  € 600,000 – (Greek) Ministry of Education (2012 – 2015)
• Co-proposer and member of the “Broca’s aphasia” group, The structure of (a)typical language: Linguistic theory and intervention. 36-month Project #MIS 383592 under “Archimides”/National Strategic Reference Framework – PI: Arhonto Terzi – total budget: € 100,000 – (Greek) Ministry of Education (2012 – 2015)

INTERNAL FUNDING

• Principal Investigator, Grammatical Aspect and Time Reference in L1 Cypriot Greek and L1 Standard Greek Neurotypical Speakers and Speakers with Acquired Neurogenic Disorders, 24-month Project – grant awarded by the Cyprus University of Technology – total budget: € 40,000 (2022 – 2024)

Cyprus University of Technology – Department of Rehabilitation Sciences (Limassol, Cyprus) (since academic year 2020–Current)

Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics for Speech-Language Therapists (undergraduate)

Aphasia and Related Disorders (undergraduate)

Neurogenic Cognitive Disorders: Assessment and Rehabilitation (undergraduate)

Neuroanatomy / Neurophysiology (undergraduate)

Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate)

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus – Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (Brooklyn, NY, USA) (academic year 2018–2019)

Aphasia and Adult Neurogenic Disorders (postgraduate)

Advanced Neuroanatomy (postgraduate)

University of Oslo – Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (Oslo, Norway) (spring semester 2016–2017)

The Impact of Bilingualism/Multilingualism on Cognitive and Language Abilities (postgraduate)

Technological Educational Institute of Epirus (currently University of Ioannina) – Department of Speech and Language Therapy (Ioannina, Greece) (academic year 2010–2011)

Psycholinguistics (undergraduate)

Neurolinguistics (undergraduate)

Linguistics (undergraduate)

Phonological Development and Disorders (undergraduate)