Cristina Flores
Cristina Flores is Associate Professor for German Linguistics at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Minho. She obtained her PhD in 2008 in German Linguistics with a thesis on The syntactic competence of Portuguese-German returnees. A study on Language Attrition (UMinho+UHamburg). Her research focuses on bilingual language development, especially on heritage language acquisition and on language attrition. She has coordinated several projects on (Portuguese-German) bilingualism and second language acquisition. Currently, she is Director of the Research Center on Humanistic Studies (since June 2019), director of the Double Degree Master on Portuguese-German Studies and board member of the PhD programme on Language Science. She is associate editor of Linguistic Approaches do Bilingualism (John Benjamins), of Heritage Languaga Journal, co-editor of the series Language Development (Narr Verlag), of the journal REAL (Revista de Estudos Germanísticos) and the journal Diacrítica (CEHUM). Since 2019 she is member of the Ethic Committee for Research on Social Science and Humanities of UMinho.