Affiliation: University of Nicosia
Keywords: Experimental phonetics, speech acquisition, language acquisition, cognitive processing, communication disorders, machine learning.
Full profile: Dr Georgios (George) Georgiou is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Nicosia. He is the founder and Director of the Phonetic Lab. He has been awarded the prestigious Cyprus Research Award – Young Researcher 2023 in the thematic area of Social Sciences and Humanities by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation, in recognition of his outstanding research and academic profile. He obtained a BA in Greek Philology (2007-2011), an MA in Education (2011-2013) with distinction, and a PhD in Linguistics (2014-2018) with distinction from the University of Cyprus. During his studies, he received MA and PhD scholarships from the Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation. He has also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at RUDN University (2018-2020) and the Cyprus University of Technology (2021).
His research interests include speech and language acquisition, cognitive processing, communication disorders, and machine learning. Between 2018 and 2024, he published more than 40 refereed articles in high-impact journals such as Ampersand, Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, Acoustics, Applied Acoustics, Behavioral Sciences, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, Cognitive Processing, Epidemiology and Health, International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of Public Health, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, Language Learning and Development, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Languages, Language Sciences, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Scientific Reports (Nature), Speech Communication, Speech, Language and Hearing, and others. He has also published several monographs, edited volumes, book chapters, and articles in conference proceedings.
He has presented papers at over 70 conferences worldwide. He has won several research grants as a PI, notably securing postdoctoral research fellowship grants at the Cyprus University of Technology (with a score of 91/100, ranking 5th out of 38) for the project “Linguistic processing in Cypriot Greek children with developmental language disorder” (2021) and RUDN University (provided by the Russian Government) for the project “Perception of nonnative segments by Russian speakers” (2018-2020). Additional accolades include a research grant from the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation for the project “Diagnosis of communication and neurological disorders based on speech elements” (60.000 euros) (2024-2026), the Seal of Excellence for a project submitted to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (2021), etc.