Stella Markantonatou is a Research Director at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)/ATHENA RC. She has served as a Lecturer (University of Essex 1992), a Visiting Assistant Professor (University of Cyprus 1998) and an Associate Professor (University of Crete 2002). She is a member of the Management Committee of the MSc programme “Language Technology” (co-organised by the NKUA and ATHENA RC). She has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ILSP (2011-2016), the Board of the National Documentation Center of Greece (2017-2019) and the SIGLEX Standing Committee for Multiword Expressions (2017-2019). She has coordinated or had the scientific responsibility of 20 national and European R&D projects. She has published more than 90 papers in national and international refereed journals and conferences, and has edited 5 volumes for international publishers and the Academy of Athens.