PhraseoLab Team

Florentina Mena-Martínez is a professor at the Department of English Studies at the University of Murcia. Her research areas are phraseology, in particular contrastive phraseology (English-Spanish), phraseodidactics and phraseological variation. She has published numerous articles on English and Spanish phraseology and has coordinated and realised several innovative projects on phraseodidactics in which multilingual principles formed the pedagogical approach (Phras.eu). She has also worked on the project ‘Widespread Idioms from Europe and beyond’ under the direction of Elisabeth Piirainen. She is currently also working on the project ‘The peculiarities of the phraseology of English from a contrastive perspective’ and participates in the EUniWell Thematic Arena on Culture, Multilingualism and Well-Being.

Carola Strohschen has a PhD in Contrastive Phraseology (German-Spanish) and is a lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Murcia. Her teaching activities at the Department of German Studies include German as a Foreign Language, German Culture and Contrastive Phraseology. Her research areas are GFL didactics, cognitive linguistics, phraseology and phraseodidactics as well as intercultural studies. She is a member of the INTERFRADIS (UMU) research group. Through her leadership and participation in research groups and projects on multilingual phraseology and phraseodidactics (Phraseopedia, redewe.de, phras.eu), she has gained experience in the use of digital media and the creation of digital learning tools, which is of particular value to the PhraseoLab project. Several of her works deal with the research area of phraseology and phraseodidactics.

Moisés Almela-Sánchez holds the degree of German and English studies and holds a doctorate in English linguistics. He has been teaching English language and literature at the University of Murcia for more than 15 years and has been a full professor since 2019. As a researcher, he has participated in five research projects and published extensively on corpus linguistics and collocations. He has been coordinator of scientific panels at the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) and the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO).

María José Alcaraz Gutiérrez is a part-time lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Murcia, Spain. She has a degree in English Philology and is a PhD student in the research area of English Linguistics. She is a member of the INTERFRADIS research group and her research interests are mainly focused on phraseology and phrase didactics of English and German as foreign languages. She has participated in several innovation projects in the teaching innovation group ‘PhraseoTic: Texts and Plurilingualism’ and in the transfer project ‘UmuPhrase: Detrás de toda gran frase hay una gran historia’.

Marios Chrissou is a professor of linguistics and didactics of German as a foreign language and has been a member of the Department of German Language and Literature at the National Kapodistrias University of Athens since 2002. Since 2017, he has been head of the Master’s programme ‘Didactics of German as a Foreign Language’ at the Hellenic Open University. He holds a PhD in phraseology and has been a member of the advisory board of the European Phraseological Society (EUROPHRAS) since 2021. In 2015, he created the freely accessible digital university seminar ‘Phraseology’ as part of the ‘Open Academic Events’ of the National Kapodistrias University of Athens. From 2016 to 2018, he worked on the project ‘Widespread Idioms in Europe and beyond’. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Europhras Conference (2018) in Bialystok and the International Conferences on Phraseology (2021 and 2023) in Wroclaw/Poland. His research focuses on phraseology, phraseodidactics and computer-assisted foreign language teaching and learning.

Maria Triantafyllou was born in Athens. She studied German Studies at the Department of German Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens and specialised in the field of didactics. She completed her Master’s degree in the Master’s programme ‘Interfaces of Linguistics and Didactics’ at the same department. Since 2006 she has worked as a German teacher at private language schools in Athens. Since 2020 she has been teaching German as a second foreign language after English to adults and young people in German-speaking countries. Her scientific and didactic interests are multilingualism and tertiary language didactics, the promotion of phraseological competence in foreign language teaching and foreign language teaching in a multicultural context.

Erla Hallsteinsdóttir is Professor of German Business Communication at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. She has published widely on several linguistic and didactic topics as well as phraseology and intercultural communication. She has also written learning and teaching materials on phraseology and German-Danish communication. She is a board member and treasurer of the Danish German Studies Association and EUROPHRAS, and she is leading the organisation of the EUROPHRAS Conference 2025 in Aarhus. Her experience in developing teaching and learning materials as well as her research expertise in phraseology and phrase didactics, including phraseology in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, corpus linguistic research on phraseology and phrasemes in dictionaries, are of particular importance for the development of the teaching and learning materials in the PhraseoLab project. Her publication on the phraseological optimum (2006) is one of the cornerstones of the project.

Anna Sulikowska is a professor at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Szczecin. In 2007, she completed her doctorate in the field of foreign language didactics, and in 2020 she successfully completed her habilitation with the monograph Cognitive Aspects of Phraseology. Prior to her doctorate, she worked as a teacher and lecturer at several secondary schools, language schools and vocational colleges and gained a lot of experience in teaching practice. Her current research focuses on cognitive semantics and phraseology, but she has also published numerous articles and contributions on lexicography, foreign language didactics, cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics. 

Lidia Moskal ist die Absolventin der Germanistik an der Stettiner Universität. In ihrer Magisterarbeit hat sie sich mit der kognitiven Metapherntheorie von Lakoff und Johnson und der Konzeptualisierung der Depression aus der Perspektive von Betroffenen beschäftigt. Sie arbeitete als DaF-Lektorin im Goethe-Institut, wo sie Sprachgruppen auf verschiedenen Sprachniveaus unterrichtet. Der Schwerpunkt des Interesses liegt auf der Phraseologie und Phraseodidaktik. Seit Oktober 2023 ist sie Doktorandin an der Doktorandenschule der Universität Szczecin und arbeitet am Forschungsvorhaben Routineformeln im gesteuerten Fremdsprachenerwerb. Im Jahr 2023 hat sie in der Zeitschrift Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław ihren ersten Artikel unter dem Titel “Mehrwortverbindungen in der Fremdsprachendidaktik. Die Vorstellung des Projekts PhraseoLab” veröffentlicht.