Johann-Mattis List
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 283
e-mail:
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About me
I am a full professor at the University of Passau, leading the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics. The research carried out in our CALC/MCL Lab at Passau and in collaboration with researchers from Leipzig takes inspiration from bioinformatics and computer science to tackle problems in comparative linguistics and to provide solutions for multilingual problems in computational linguistics. In my research, I generally follow a data-driven, empirical, and quantitative perspective on language change and language history. In contrast to pure computational approaches, however, I try to keep my research closely connected to traditional historical linguistics and theory, following a computer-assisted rather than a computer-based framework of quantitative research in historical linguistics.
Curriculum Vitae
| since 01/2023 | Full professor at the University of Passau, leading the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics |
| 03/2021-03/2024 | Senior scientist in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 01/2017-02/2021 | Senior scientist in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History |
| 1/2015-12/2016 | DFG research fellow at the Centre de Recherches Linguistique sur l'Asie Orientale (EHESS) and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Team "Adaptation, Integration, Reticulation, Evolution") |
| 10/2012-12/2014 | Post-doctoral researcher at Philipps-University Marburg |
| 02/2009-09/2012 | Doctoral student at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Historical Linguistics) |
| 25.06.2008 | Magister Artium: Major Subject: Comparative-Historical Linguistics (Freie University Berlin), Minor Subjects: Sinology (Freie University Berlin), Russian Philology (Humboldt-University Berlin) |
| 09/2007-01/2008 | Visiting student at Fúdàn University Shànghǎi (Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, taught in Chinese) |
| 09/2005-07/2006 | Language student at Fudan University Shanghai |
| 2003-2008 | Studies at Freie University Berlin and Humbold-University Berlin (Major Subject: Comparative-Historical Linguistics, Minor Subjects: Sinology, Russian Philology) |
| 10/2002-09/2003 | Studies at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen (Major Subject: Rhetorics, Minor Subjects: Modern History, Comparative Literature Studies, Russian Philology) |
My full and always up-to-date CV is available for download here.