Flavia Pompeo graduated from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, presenting a dissertation in Historical Linguistics under the supervision of Prof. Walter Belardi and Palmira Cipriano.
November 1999-February 2019: Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Document Studies, Linguistics and Geography (Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche), University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
She is presently Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Lettere e culture moderne, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
Since January 2003 she has been on the PhD board of Historical Linguistics and the Linguistic History of Italian (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’), now PhD board of Linguistics (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and University of Roma Tre).
She has participated in various research projects and is also a member of SIG (Società Italiana di Glottologia), IsIAO (Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente), SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea), SIE (Societas Iranologica Europaea), and Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese.
Her research interests focus on historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics and historical sociolinguistics, and, in particular, on topics regarding the morphosyntax of Ancient Greek and of Old Iranian languages.
Publications include five books dedicated to various linguistic issues in Ancient Greek and Old Persian, as well as articles in journals and edited works.