Dr Georgios P. Georgiou

Associate Head of Department
Assistant Professor
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Languages and Literature
Director of the Phonetic Lab

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Dr Georgios Georgiou [ʝeˈorʝios ʝeoˈrʝiu] is a tenured Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Associate Head of the Department of Languages and Literature, and Director of the Phonetic Lab at the University of Nicosia. He was awarded the Cyprus Research Award – Young Researcher 2023 in Social Sciences and Humanities by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation. In 2024, he was unanimously elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe. His research focuses on speech acquisition, language acquisition, speech-language disorders, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Since 2018, he has published more than 100 scholarly contributions, primarily peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals, including Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders; AI; Annals of Biomedical Engineering; Applied Acoustics; Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics; Behavioral Sciences; Big Data and Cognitive Computing; British Journal of Developmental Psychology; Frontiers in Psychology; Healthcare; International Journal of Applied Linguistics; International Journal of Bilingualism; International Journal of Medical Informatics; International Journal of Speech Technology; Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders; Journal of Education for Teaching; Journal of Language and Social Psychology; Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; Journal of Neurolinguistics; Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Research in Autism; Scientific Reports; Second Language Research; Speech Communication; and others. He has presented his research at more than 100 conferences worldwide and has secured several competitive national and international research grants as Principal Investigator. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Research in Reading, an Early Career Editorial Board Member of Languages, and an External Expert Evaluator for the European Research Executive Agency of the European Commission and several European national research agencies. In 2025, he was ranked 21st among 27,477 linguists worldwide (top 0.07%) by ScholarGPS.