Anastasia Paspali holds a PhD in General Linguistics from the Humboldt University of Berlin. In her dissertation, she studied the processing of gender agreement in monolingual and bilingual speakers (with Greek as their Heritage Language). She holds a MA in Applied Linguistics and a Bachelor in Greek Philology with specialization in Linguistics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a research fellow of the German Research Centre-DFG, (Walter-Benjamin Fellowship Programme awarded to particularly qualified early career researchers) and she conducts her postdoctoral research at the Department of Linguistics (LingLab) School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with Professor Despoina Papadopoulou as her research supervisor. The topic of her postdoctoral research is the acquisition and processing of Voice in children with Developmental Language Disorder. She conducts research on the fields of language processing, bilingualism and minority languages (Heritage Languages and code-mixing), first and second/foreign language acquisition, language disorders, and second language learning and teaching. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer/academic research fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin, University Konstanz, University of Crete, and in New-York College Thessaloniki in collaboration with the University of Greenwich, where she has autonomously taught courses on bilingualism, language contact, heritage languages, neurolinguistics, syntax, applied linguistics, and web-based methods in language acquisition.