Ianthi Tsimpli works on language development of the first and second language in children and adults, language impairment, attrition, bilingualism, language processing and the interaction between language, cognitive abilities and print exposure. She has recently held the position of Professor of Multilingualism and Cognition at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, and the positions of Professor of Psycholinguistics and Director of the Language Development Lab at the Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from University College London (1992). The Language Development Lab she founded and directed in Thessaloniki conducts research on first and second language development, bilingualism, SLI, Broca’s aphasia, native adult, child and L2 sentence processing and eye-movements. A large part of this research is externally funded through national and international research projects.