Evangelia Adamou is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, specializing in language contact and endangered languages.
[4][5] In 2022 Adamou was elected as an ordinary member of the Academia Europaea.
[4] Adamou's research centers on the analysis and description of under-described languages, with a focus on language contact and multilingualism, employing both corpus-based and experimental methods.
[6] She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Balkans (on Romani and Balkan Slavic) and in Mexico (on Ixcatec and Romani).
[1] She is currently (2022–24) Principal Investigator on a major French-Russian joint project to create an atlas of the Balkan linguistic area, together with Andrey Sobolev.