Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) was composed of internationally renowned researchers, representing the broad interdisciplinary research areas covered by the University Research Priority Program. The members of the SAB provided strategic advice to the leadership of the URPP and supported the development of the program with their expertise.

• Prof. Dr. Sjef Barbiers, Professor of Dutch Linguistics at Leiden University
• Prof. Dr. Roberta D'Alessandro, Professor of Syntax and Language Variation at Utrecht University
• Prof. Dr. Bernd Möbius, Professor of Phonetics and Phonology at Saarland University
• Prof. Dr. Anja Stukenbrock, Professor of German Linguistics at Heidelberg University
• Prof. Dr. Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Professor of Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics at KU Leuven

• Prof. Dr. Hilary Chappell, Professor of Linguistic Typology of East Asian Languages at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EHESS)
• Prof. Dr. Susanne Günthner, Professor of German Linguistics at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
• Prof. Dr. Jonathan Harrington, Director of the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing at LMU Munich
• Prof. Dr. Christian Heath, Professor of Work and Organisation at King's College London
• Prof. Dr. Adam Ledgeway, Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at University of Cambridge
• Prof. Dr. Per Linell, Professor emeritus in Communication at Göteborg University
• Prof. Dr. Paul Longley, Professor of Geographic Information Science at University College London
• Prof. Dr. Anke Lüdeling, Professor of Corpus Linguistics and Morphology, Humboldt-University Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Joe Salmons, Professor of Linguistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison