My name is Iria (pronounced /iria/); de-Dios and Flores are my surnames.

I am a psycholinguist lately fascinated by (and slowly learning) computational linguistics. Currently, I am a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the Computational Linguistics and Linguistic Theory group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra under the supervision of Gemma Boleda. Between 2021 and 2023 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the USC Center for Intelligent Technologies (CiTIUS) working on the development of language-centric AI tools for Galician as part of the Nós Project under the guidance of Paulo Gamalho (USC-CiTIUS) and other experts on his team. Previously, I was affiliated with the Basque Center of Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) and the department of English and German of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), where I obtained my PhD in 2021 under the supervision of Carlos Acuña-Fariña (USC) and Manuel Carreiras (BCBL). Between 2014 and 2024 I was also a member of the research unit Cognitive Processes and Behavior.

My research is concerned with sentence processing, eye-tracking during reading, linguistic dependencies, and the relationship between grammar and parsing. More recently, I got deeply interested in the connections between cognitive and computational science of language and, more specifically, in understanding and leveraging the linguistic capabilities of artificial language models.

Besides the scientific and technological questions that occupy my mind, I'm an organization geek, and I enjoy participating in teamwork coordination and scientific project management activities. 

You can reach me at iria.dedios@upf.edu in Galician, Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, or Catalan.