Didier Demolin#
| Membership Number: | 3836 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Visiting professor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil (Catedra Levi-Strauss)
- 2010 to these days: Professor (PR1) Université de Stendhal and Gipsa-lab, Grenoble
- 2003 - 2010 Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- 2003 - 2007 Visiting Professor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
- 1996 - 1999 Professor (PR2) at the Université de Provence (Aix-en-Provence)
- 1991 - 2002 Assitant & 1st assistant (Permanent position) Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 1987 - 1990 Research, American Museum of National History.
- 1987 - 1988 Research, Harvard Ituri project.
- 1983 - 1986 Research, Centre Ethnomusicologique Paul Collaer, Tervuren.
- 1980 - 1982 Research, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique Butare, Rwanda.
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental phonetics
- Laboratory phonology
- Speech production
- African linguistics
- Evolution of language and speech
- Primate vocalizations
- Ethnomusicology
- Music acoustics
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Freeman Prize, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- 2009 -2010 Francqui chair, Belgium
- 2007 Académie Charles Cros
- 2004 Membre titulaire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer de Belgique
- 1982 Prix de la Fondation belge de la Vocation.
