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Sophia Drossopoulou
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| Σοφία Δροσοπούλου | |
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| Alma mater | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
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| Fields | Programming Languages |
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
| Thesis | Verschmelzen von Aktionen in Zerteilern (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gerhard Goos Peter Deussen |
| Doctoral students | Diomidis Spinellis |
Sophia Drossopoulou (Greek: Σοφία Δροσοπούλου) is a computer scientist, currently working at Imperial College London, where she is Professor in Programming Languages. She earned her Ph.D. from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Her research interests are mainly in formal methods for programming languages; her work is notable for a proof of the soundness of the Java programming language.
Her first Ph.D. student was Diomidis Spinellis. She is the daughter of the lawyer and politician Antonis Drossopoulos, and of the author Athena Cacouris (Greek: Αθηνά Κακούρη).
She is a lecturer for undergraduate students studying Computing and Joint Mathematics and Computing at Imperial College London. She teaches courses on "Logic & Reasoning" to first-year students and "Models of Computation" to second-year students.
