Gemma Boleda is an ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she co-leads the Computational Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (COLT) research group. In her research, she uses quantitative and computational methods to better understand how natural languages convey meaning. Her favorite research question is "Why is language the way it is?", and she still hasn't found the answer. 

https://gboleda.github.io