Christoforos Charalampakis

Christoforos Charalampakis is a full member of the Academy of Athens, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), and Chair of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Philosophy and Ideas.

He studied at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens, pursued postgraduate studies at Heidelberg University, and received his PhD from the University of Cologne in 1976. He served as Professor at the University of Crete and subsequently at NKUA, and held visiting professorships at universities across Europe and Cyprus. He has delivered scholarly lectures at 42 universities internationally.

His research encompasses theoretical and applied linguistics, semantics, etymology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, educational linguistics, and lexicography. He has authored 15 books and more than 200 original research studies, with an overall scholarly output exceeding 550 publications. His most significant achievement is the Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek (Christiko Lexiko tis Neoellinikis Glossas), published by the Academy of Athens in 2014, for which he was responsible for the conceptual design and scientific direction.

Throughout his academic career, he has served as an adviser and representative in Greek and European educational and scientific organisations, participated in numerous research projects, and contributed to the editorial boards of international academic journals. His work has helped advance the systematic study of Modern Greek, particularly in lexicography and the investigation of linguistic variation, while maintaining strong connections between linguistic research and education.

He is an Honorary Professor of the University of Bucharest and an Honorary Doctor of Democritus University of Thrace. In 2022, he was elected to the Academy of Athens in the field of Linguistics. At the Institute of Philosophy and Ideas, he serves as Chair of the Scientific Council.