Cristina Flores, Associate Professor (with habilitation) for German Linguistics at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies/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, in particular on heritage language acquisition and language attrition. She has coordinated several projects on (Portuguese-German) bilingualism and L2 acquisition. She was Director of the Research Centre on Humanities (2019–2022). Currently, she is head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies, of the Double Degree Master on Portuguese-German Studies, board member of the PhD programme on Language Science and President of the Portuguese Linguistics Association (since 2022). She is associate editor of “Linguistic Approaches do Bilingualism” (Benjamins), “Heritage Language Journal” (Brill), co-editor of the series Language Development (Narr). She was co-editor of the journal “Diacrítica” (CEHUM). She is Vice-president of the Ethic Committee for Research on Social Science and Humanities of UMinho (https://cehum. elach.uminho.pt/researchers/2).
