Asifa Majid#
| Membership Number: | 3517 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/asifa-majid |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
- 2018 - 2022 Professor of Language, Communication and Cultural Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of York
- 2012 - 2018 Professor of Language, Communication and Cultural Cognition, Center for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen
- 2012 - present Affiliated Principal Investigator, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- 2010 - present Affiliated Principal Investigator, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
- 2011 - 2012 Senior Investigator, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- 2004 - 2010 Scientific Staff member, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- 2001 - 2003 Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- 2000 - 2001 University lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow
Fields of Scholarship
- Categorization
- Cross-cultural comparison
- Language and thought
- Cross-linguistic comparison
- Semantics
- Lexical typology
- Conceptual development
Honours and Awards
- 2012 - 2017 NWO Vici (1.5 million euros)[This award is the Netherlands equivalent to the ERC. From the NWO website: “Vici is targeted at outstanding senior researchers who have successfully demonstrated the ability to develop their own innovative lines of research, and to act as coaches for young researchers.”]
- 2012 Research Fellow at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden
- 2012 Invited research Fellow at The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) of Bielefeld University in Germany [declined]
