Aditi Lahiri

Aditi Lahiri (born 14 July 1952) is an India born German linguist at the University of Oxford.

Early life and education

Lahiri was botn on 14 July 1952 in Calcutta, India.[1] She was educated at the Bethune College, Kolkata, India, and later at the University of Calcutta.[2] She earned two doctorates; one from the University of Calcutta in comparative philology and one in linguistics from Brown University.[3]

Academic career

She has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles and at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and would later work as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands .[3]

She is a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and has, until recently been a professor at the University of Konstanz.[4]

Honours

In 2007, Lahiri was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2010, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).

She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2000.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "LAHIRI, Prof. Aditi". Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Rejected by CU, a star at Oxford
  3. 1 2 About Lahiri
  4. ↑ Homepage
  5. ↑ German honour for Aditi Lahiri


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