Laura Giacomini is a Full Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck. In 2019, she completed her habilitation at the Department of Information Science and NLP at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. Her research focuses on (computational) lexicography, terminology, phraseology and language technologies. She is the principal investigator (PI) of PhraseBase, an ongoing project aimed at developing a phraseological and cognitively oriented lexical information system for various languages, and organises the PhrasaLex workshop series associated with the project. Amongst other editorial activities, she is co-editor-in-chief of the dictionary series *Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft* ( WSK) / *Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Science*, published by De Gruyter Brill.
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Valentina Piunnois an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bergamo (Italy). Her research interests include the study of the lexicon at the interface between semantics and syntax, synchronic and diachronic approaches to comparative linguistics, combinatorial lexicography, corpus linguistics, and the application of computational technologies to linguistic research. Since 2024, she has been in charge of the DiaBerg project : ‘I dialetti bergamaschi in rete’, which aims to preserve, promote and disseminate the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Bergamasque dialects. She has also participated in national research projects, including CombiNet ( 2013–16), dedicated to the development of a combinatorial dictionary of Italian, and the PNRR project CHANGES – Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society (2022–25). She is the author of the book*Sintagmi preposizionali con funzione aggettivale e avverbiale* (LINCOM 2018) and of several publications in the field of combinatorial lexicology.
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Inés Olza is a Senior Researcher in Language and Cognition at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra (UNav, Spain), where she heads theMultimodal Pragmatics Lab, which focuses on the cognitive and pragmatic study of human multimodal communication. She is also Principal Investigator of theMultiDeMe Knowledge Generation Project, which analyses the multimodal patterns of disagreement and mediation in human interaction, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and EU/FEDER funds (PID2022-143052NB-I00), and she directs the CoCoMInt Network on conflict communication and mediation in interaction, which coordinates scientific collaboration amongst 11 research teams at 10 Spanish universities. She is a member of the Red Hen Lab , a distributed laboratory for research into multimodal communication; the Pamplona node of PRESEEA , and the Iberus Action Cluster: Cognition in Action (Grupo ICON). Her research focuses on figurative language, gesture, phraseology and interactional dynamics from the perspective of pragmatics, cognitive linguistics and multimodality.
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Katrin Schmiderer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Subject-Specific Education at the University of Innsbruck. She also teaches Italian and Spanish at secondary school level and works as a trainer in teacher professional development. After completing her PhD in 2022, her thesis was published by Narr Francke Attempto in 2023 as *Produktiver und rezeptiver Grammatikerwerb im schulischen Italienischunterricht. Eine Lernersprachenanalyse* (‘Productive and Receptive Grammar Acquisition in School Italian Lessons: A Learner Language Analysis’). In addition, she is the lead author of the task-oriented, corpus-based phraseodidactic textbook *Facciamo bella figura! * (iup 2021), designed for teaching and learning Italian as a second language. Her main research interests include various aspects of instructed SLA (morphosyntax, production-comprehension interfaces, turn-taking in interaction, formulaic language; particularly L2 Italian and Spanish) and task-based language teaching (TBLT).
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Anke Lenzingis a professor of English language education at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research focuses on the psycholinguistic aspects of (instructed) second language acquisition (SLA). She has conducted extensive work within the framework of Processability Theory and has extended the theory to include a model of the mental grammatical system of early-stage L2 learners, as well as a model of the interface between L2 comprehension and production. She has also investigated the role of formulaic sequences in early SLA. Her current research focuses on psycholinguistic perspectives on L2 communicative interaction and on applying mathematical principles of dynamical systems theory to selected aspects of SLA.
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Zeynep Köylü is a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor and a senior research associate in the Department of English at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on second language development in various learning contexts, particularly study abroad programmes, where she investigates improvements in L2 formulaicity, the role of English as a lingua franca, intercultural communication, and the dynamic interaction between learner-internal and learner-external variables. Her work has been published in leading journals in the field, such as *Language Learning*, *Studies in Second Language Acquisition*, *System* and *Journal of Second Language Writing*, to name but a few. She is also a working group leader in the European Network on International Student Mobility (ENIS).
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