Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo

Ana Boullón Agrelo is a Lecturer in the Department of Galician Philology at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. She graduated in Galician-Portuguese Philology in 1985, began post-graduate study in 1986 and was awarded her Ph.D. in 1994 with the thesis Contribución ó estudio da antroponimia medieval galega (séculos VIII-XIII).

Her research centers on onomastics, text editing with specialisation in medieval texts, and historic lexicography. Since 1985 she has been affiliated to the Instituto da Lingua Galega (USC), is a member of its scientific committee and in charge of its Onomastics Section, which oversees the management of the Cartografía dos Apelidos de Galicia website in conjunction with Xulio Sousa. She currently coordinates the soon to be published Dicionario de apelidos galegos.

She is a member of the board of directors of the Asociación Galega de Onomástica (Santiago de Compostela), and a permanent member of the Real Academia Galega among other scientific societies. She is also a member on the editorial, scientific or advisory board of academic reviews such as Viceversa, Estudos de Lingüística Galega, Rivista Italiana di Onomastica (Roma), Onomàstica. Anuari de la Societat d'Onomàstica (Barcelona), LaborHistórico (Rio de Janeiro), Cadernos de Lingua (Real Academia Galega).