Petra Hendriks#
| Membership Number: | 7086 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.rug.nl/staff/p.hendriks/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7584-4078 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Full Professor of Semantics and Cognition (tenured), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- 2009, July - 2010, July Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, USA
- 2005 - 2008 Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Linguistics & Department of Dutch Language and Culture at Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- 2002 - 2005 Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Artificial Intelligence at Faculty of Psychological, Social and Educational Sciences & Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- 1997 - 2002 Assistant Professor (tenured), Department of Artificial Intelligence at Faculty of Psychological, Social and Educational Sciences & Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- 1993 - 1997 Lecturer (fixed term), Department of Cognitive Science and Engineering at Faculty of Psychological, Social and Educational Sciences & Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- 1992, February - 1992, May Visiting Researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
- 1989 - 1993 PhD student in Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Semantics
- Linguistics
- Language acquisition
- Language and communication in autism
- Cognitive science
- Pragmatics
- Language processing
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW)
- 2013 Elected Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, KHMW)



