Foundations of software technology and theoretical computer science

Sophia Drossopoulou (Greek: Σοφία Δροσοπούλου) is a Greek 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 (Αθηνά Κακούρη).