Melanie Malzahn#
©Barbara Mair
| Membership Number: | 3734 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://linguistics.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/professorinnen/melanie-malzahn/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2407-9094 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022- Co-PI Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations"
- 2017—2022 Direktor of the Akademievorhaben “Turfanforschung” (Turfan Studies) Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities / Berlin
- 2016-2022 Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
- 2012-2014 Head of the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Vienna
- Since 2012 Full Professor of Linguistics at the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Vienna
- 2011-2012 Senior Postdoc & Principal Investigator, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Vienna
- 2008-2011 Recipient of an APART-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2000-2008 Univ. Assistant at the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative Indo-European Studies
- Vedic Sanskrit
- Tocharian
- Middle Iranian
Honours and Awards
- Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2022— Chair of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Editor-in-Chief Indogermanische Forschungen
