Alexander Lubotsky: Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 1973 – 1976: Lomonosov University, Moscow (Linguistics)
  • 1976 – 1980: Leiden University
  • 1978: kandidaats (BA) Indo-Iranian
  • 1980: doctoraal (MA) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
  • 1987: PhD Leiden (“Nominal accentuation in Sanskrit and Indo-European”, under supervision of Professor R.S.P. Beekes)

Employment

  • 1980 – 1999: Assistant Professor (universitair docent), Leiden University
  • 1999 – present: full professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University
  • 2006 – present: Director of the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University
  • 1992 – present: Leader of the project “Indo-European Etymological Dictionary”

Awards and Grants

  • 1997: Research grant (3 postdocs) for the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project (NWO) [Fl. 900.000 + matching by Centre for Non-Western Studies, LU, Fl. 900.000 ≈ €850.000]
  • 1992 – 2017: Visiting grants for foreign researchers to work on the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project (NWO) [in sum, €250.000]
  • 2005 – 2019: Research grants for the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project (Royal Brill Publishers) [€440.000 + matching by the Faculty of Humanities and the LUCL €390.000 = €830.000]
  • 2016: HERA-Grant for the Joint Research Programme Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe [€1.250.000, € 250.000 of which is granted to the Leiden research unit to carry out the project Language contact and genetic relationship in pre-Roman North-West Anatolia]
  • 2003 – present: member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
  • 2013 – present: member of the Academia Europaea

Editorial service

  • 1991 – present: editor-in-chief of the series “Leiden Studies in Indo-European” (Rodopi; 21 volumes)
  • 2005 – present: editor-in-chief of the “Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series” (Brill; 12 volumes)
  • 2010 – present: editor “Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online” (Brill).
  • 2013 – present: editor of the series “Brill Introductions to Indo-European Languages” (2 volumes)
  • 2002 – present: member of the editorial board “Nartamongæ”, Vladikavkaz
  • 2008 – present: member of the editorial board “Journal of Language Relationship”, Moscow
  • 2008 – present: member of the editorial board of the series “Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics”
  • 2011 – present: member of the scientific committee (comitato scientifico) “Studi Iranici Ravennati”, Milano 
  • 2014 – present: member of the editorial board “Linguistica Brunensia”
  • 2016 – present: member of the advisory board of the series “Indogermanische Textlinguistik, Poetik und Stilistik”, Vienna

Lectures

  • 1993, 2005: guest lectures Universität Wien (Austria)
  • 1994: visiting professor Cornell University and Yale University (USA)
  • 1996, 1999: guest lectures Harvard University (USA)
  • 2002: guest lecture Collège de France (Paris, France)
  • 2002: directeur d’études invité “École Pratique des Hautes Études” (Paris, France)
  • 2007: guest lecture Universität Köln
  • 2007: linguistic course “Sanskrit Historical Phonology”, Università di Palermo, Italy
  • 2008: guest lectures Institut für Iranistik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
  • 2012: guest lecture Wiener Sprachgesellschaft
  • 2013: linguistic course “Vedic Sanskrit”, Università di Pavia, Italy
  • 2014: visiting professor Sapienza, Università di Roma
  • 2017: guest lecture Universität Zürich
  • Invited speaker at the conferences in Rome (1995), Philadelphia (1996), Helsinki (1999), Cambridge (1999), Kyoto (1999), Cambridge (1999), Moscow (2000), Halle/Saale (2000), Copenhagen (2000), Jerusalem (2001), Leipzig (2001), Santa Fe (2003), Münster (2004), Halle (2004), Santa Fe (2004), Istanbul (2005), Vienna (2005), Beyşehir (2006), Ashgabad (2006), Münster (2006), Leipzig (2006), Moscow (2008), Münster (2008), Ravenna (2009), Paris (2010), Münster (2010), Los Angeles (2010), Opava (2010), Vienna (2012), Ravenna (2012), Vienna (2013), St-Petersburg (2013), Rome (2014), Lausanne (2016), Siena (2018), Gothenburg (2018), Ghent (2018), Zürich (2019), Vienna (2019), Zürich (2022)

Administrative functions

  • 1999 – 2010: Chair, Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
  • 2001 – 2007, 2014 – 2016: Organization of the annual Linguistic Olympics (+ “The 3rd International Linguistic Olympics” in 2005)
  • 2004 – present: Member of the board “Indogermanische Gesellschaft”
  • 2004 – 2008: Director of F.B.J. Kuiperinstituut
  • 2005 – 2008: Member of the board and the senate of Leiden University Center for Linguistics
  • 2008: member of the “Projektkommission” Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (Universität Jena), on behalf of the Union der deutschen Akademien
  • 2008 – 2016: Chairman of the section “Taal- en Literatuurwetenschappen”, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
  • 2008 – 2014: Member of the board “Stichting J. Gonda-Fonds” (KNAW)
  • 2011 – 2017: Member of the Advisory board of Leiden University Center for Linguistics
  • 2012 – 2016: Vice-president “Indogermanische Gesellschaft”
  • 2013 – 2017, 2020 – 2021: Chair, Department of Linguistics
  • 2016 – present: Member of the Section Committee Classics and Oriental Studies, Academia Europaea
  • 2020 – present: Member of the board “Bibliographie Linguistique”