Irene De Felice received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pisa in 2015. She worked as a research fellow at the CNR Institute for Computational Linguistics in Pisa (2012-2015) and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa (2016-2018). Since 2019 she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Genoa. Her research interests focus primarily on cognitive and historical linguistics