!!Natalia Levshina - Curriculum Vitae
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__EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS__
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*2019 Habilitation in General and English Linguistics, Leipzig University. Dissertation “Towards a Theory of Communicative Efficiency in Human Languages.” \\
*2007 - 2011 PhD in Linguistics. University of Leuven. Dissertation “Doe wat je niet laten kan [[Do what you cannot let]]: A usage-based study of Dutch causative constructions.” \\
*2006 Candidate's degree, Saint Petersburg State University (Department of General, Social and Psycholinguistics). Dissertation “Indirect Speech Tactics in Pre-Election Discourse.”\\
*1995 - 2000 Pskov Pedagogical University, Russia. Teacher of English and German, with high distinction
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WORK EXPERIENCE__
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*2023 - now   Assistant Professor of Communication and Computational Methods, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands \\
*2019 - 2023 Postdoctoral researcher at the Neurobiology of Language Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands\\
*2016 - 2019 Postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project “Grammatical Universals”, headed by Martin Haspelmath. Leipzig University, Germany\\
*2013 - 2015 Postdoctoral researcher at the F.R.S.-FNRS – Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium\\
*2012 - 2013 Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Marburg, Germany\\
*2012 Research fellow at the University of Jena, Germany
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EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES__
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*2023 - now Editorial board member, journal Cognitive Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton)\\
*2021 - now Editorial board member, journal Language Dynamics and Change (Brill)\\
*2020 - now Consulting editor, Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences (De Gruyter Mouton)\\
*2019 - now Statistics consultant, journal English Language and Linguistics (Cambridge University Press)\\
*2013 - now Associate editor, Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs series (De Gruyter Mouton)
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__PLENARY LECTURES__
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*August 2024	Belo Horizonte, Brazil. “Communicative efficiency in human languages and beyond”. 6th Plenary lecture at the 7th International Symposium on Functional Linguistics (SILF)\\
*June 2024 Vigo, Spain. “Communicative efficiency, language variation and processing”, plenary lecture at the 6th conference on Variation and Language Processing (VALP6)\\
*May 2024 Taipei, Taiwan. “Communicative efficiency in human languages and beyond”. Plenary lecture at the 11th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 11). National Taiwan University\\
*March 2022 Erfurt, Germany/online. “Communicative efficiency: typological, corpus-based and experimental evidence”. Plenary lecture at the 9th conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, University of Erfurt\\
*Sept. 2021 Bertinoro, Italy. “Corpora for cross-linguistic comparison: opportunities and challenges”. Plenary lecture at the 6th UCCTS (Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies) conference, University of Bologna
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__OTHER ACTIVITIES__
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*2024 - 2026	Member of the Advisory Board of the Czech National Corpus\\
*2021 - 2023	Deputy Equality Officer at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit nlevshina}][{ALLOW upload nlevshina}][{ALLOW comment All}]