Maria Kaltsa is a postdoctoral researcher in the area of Psycholinguistics. She holds an MPhil in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge (Funding: Cambridge European Trust 2006-2007), and a PhD from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Funding: Heracleitus II Award No: 86348). She has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012–2024) and at the Centre for the Greek Language (2011-2015). Her research work has focused the lexical processing of individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease (Postdoctoral Research Award of Excellence & Innovation from the AUTH Research Committee, 2016), the use of eye-tracking methodology in the evaluation of linguistic and cognitive development during infancy (AUTH Postdoctoral Research Project, 2019-2022) and the bilingual mental lexicon and parsing strategies (Postdoctoral Research Grant by State Scholarships Foundation, 2019-2021). Lastly, she has worked as the PI of the Research Project “Linguistic Perspectives on Dementia: an investigation of lexical, syntactic & content complexity in the narratives of Greek speaking patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease” (DemLENS) supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) (Project No: 98109 | 2020-2024). Her scientific interests involve (a)typical language development, language processing, language attrition and dementia.