Age, Biography and Wiki
Lea Verou (Μιχαήλια Κομβούτη-Βέρου) was born on 13 June, 1986 in Greece, is a Greek web developer. Discover Lea Verou's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 37 years old?
| Popular As |
Μιχαήλια Κομβούτη-Βέρου |
| Occupation |
Computer scientist, speaker, author |
| Age |
37 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
| Born |
13 June 1986 |
| Birthday |
13 June |
| Birthplace |
Greece |
| Nationality |
Greece
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She is a member of famous Computer with the age 37 years old group.
Lea Verou Height, Weight & Measurements
At 37 years old, Lea Verou height not available right now. We will update Lea Verou's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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| Parents |
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Lea Verou Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Lea Verou worth at the age of 37 years old? Lea Verou’s income source is mostly from being a successful Computer. She is from Greece. We have estimated Lea Verou's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
| Cars |
Not Available |
| Source of Income |
Computer |
Lea Verou Social Network
Timeline
Lea Verou (Λία Βέρου) is a Greek-American computer scientist, front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Lesbos, Greece.
Verou is currently a research assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), an elected participant in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Technical Architecture Group (TAG), and an invited expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.
She is the author of the book CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems (ISBN 978-1-449-37263-7).
Verou earned her Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Athens University of Economics and Business.
She had previously attended Aristotle University of Thessaloniki studying electrical engineering and computer science.
She later earned a Master of Science degree in computer science from MIT.
Verou started her career as a freelancer in 2005 while she was in university.
In 2008, she co-founded a Greek web development company called Fresset Ltd, which managed a number of Greek community websites that she and her co-founder had created.
Since 2011, she has written dozens of articles, including bylines in .net Magazine, Smashing Magazine, CSS-Tricks, A List Apart, and Web Almanac.
In 2012, Verou joined W3C as a Developer Advocate.
During the course of her studies and career, Verou has started over thirty open-source software projects, including PrismJS, a popular syntax highlighter, and Mavo, her research project at MIT.
Verou has spoken at over a hundred conferences, including Smashing Magazine's conference SmashingConf, A List Apart's conference An Event Apart, South by Southwest (SXSW), and jQuery's conference.
Her talks are known for their distinctive style involving live coding through a custom presentation framework that she built to optimize the experience for the audience.
Prior to that, Verou had co-authored a chapter in the book Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web in 2012.
The company was sold in 2013.
Since 2014, she has been a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidate at MIT in electrical engineering and computer science.
Her background encompasses both technical development and visual design.
Her first book, CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems was published by O'Reilly Media in 2015.
It sold thousands of copies and was translated into 8 languages.
In 2017, Verou co-authored her first CSS Specification with Tab Atkins Jr., and Elika J. Etemad, and has since co-authored four others.
She has also co-authored four peer-reviewed scientific papers as part of her research at MIT, published in ACM UIST and ACM CSCW.
Verou's teaching career began when she was still an undergraduate in Athens University of Economics and Business, where she co-organized a 4th year undergraduate course about web development together with Prof. Vasilis Vassalos.
In spring 2018, she co-taught User Interface Design & Implementation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with David Karger and Amy X. Zhang.
In 2020, it was named "The Best CSS Book" by the Chicago Tribune.
In spring 2020, together with her advisor, David Karger, she co-created and co-taught a new course at MIT that combined human-computer interaction (HCI) with web programming called 6.S082 Design for the Web: Languages and User interfaces.
The course is being taught again in spring 2022.
