Prof.
dr. Ranko Matasović, MAE
CURRICULUM VITAE
1968: born in Zagreb
1986-1990: studied linguistics and philosophy at
the University of Zagreb
1990-1996: assistant, Department of Linguistics,
University of Zagreb
1990-1992: graduate studies of linguistics,
University of Zagreb
1992: M. A. in linguistics, University of Zagreb
1993: research fellowship at the University of
Vienna (mentor: prof. dr. Radoslav Katičić)
1995: research fellowship at Oxford University
(mentor: prof. dr. Anna Morpurgo-Davies)
1995: Ph. D., University of Zagreb (mentor: prof.
dr. Radoslav Katičić)
1996-2000: Assistant Professor, Department of
Linguistics, University of Zagreb
1996- Head of the Chair of Comparative
Indo-European Linguistics, Zagreb
1997-1998: Fulbright Fellowship, University of
Wisconsin (Madison) (mentor: prof. dr. Andrew Sihler)
1998-1999: Chair of the Department of Linguistics,
University of Zagreb
2000-2004 Associate Professor of Linguistics,
University of Zagreb
2002: Awardee of the Croatian Academy of Arts and
Sciences for a lasting contribution to philology
2002- Head of the Department of Language and
Linguistics of Matica hrvatska (Matrix Croatica)
2002-2003: Humboldt fellowship, Bonn University
(mentor: prof. dr. Stefan Zimmer)
2004- Full Professor of Linguistics, University of
Zagreb
2006-2012 Associate Member of the Croatian Academy
of Sciences and Arts
2011 (Summer Semester): Guest Professor in the
University of Georgia (Athens, USA)
2012: Full Member of the Croatian Academy of
Sciences and Arts
2015 (Summer Semester): Researcher in the
Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Host: Martin
Haspelmath)
2015 (Winter Semester): Guest Professor in
Heidelberg University
2019: Winner of the prize Bulcsú László of
the Croatian Philological Association for life's achievement in philology
2020: Head of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and
Arts Committee for the Norm of the Croatian Standard Language
2022: Elected Fellow of Academia Europaea (European
Academy of Sciences, London), Section of Linguistic Sciences
2022 (Summer Semester): Guest Professor in
University of Hokkaido (Sapporo)
2022: Elected member of UNESCO's Expert
Committee for the World Atlas of Languages (WAL)
2023: Elected Secretary of the Croatian Academy of
Sciences and Arts' Department of Philological Sciences