Katerina Pastra is a Senior Researcher (Grade B) at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center and Head of the Language and Robots Lab. She founded and directed for a decade (2010–2020) the Institute of Cognitive Research and Technology (ICRT), an interdisciplinary research organization specializing in multimodal cognition, embodied language processing, and multisensory perception, whose activities have since been integrated into the Athena Research Center.