Matti Miestamo - Curriculum Vitae#
- 2003, Ph.D. in General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 01/2014 - present, Professor in General Linguistics, University of Helsinki.
- 09/2011 - 12/2018, Professor in General Linguistics, Stockholm University (leave of absence 01/2014–12/2018)
- 08/2006 - 08/2011, Research fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
- 11/2005 - 04/2006, Visiting postdoctoral researcher, University of Antwerp, Department of Linguistcs
- 01/2003 - 07/2006, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki
- 2014 - 2015, Skolt Saami documentation project, Kone Foundation, 134,394 €
- 2011, Descriptive grammar of Skolt Saami: A preparatory documentation project, Finnish Cultural Foundation (Huhtamäki Fund), 55,000 €
- 2007 - 2009, Postdoctoral researcher’s project, Academy of Finland, 180,000 €
- 2003 - 2006, Academy of Finland project The grammatical complexity of natural languages, Academy of Finland, as co-applicant/PI Prof. Fred Karlsson, 250,000 €.
- 2005, Joseph Greenberg Award, Association for Linguistic Typology
- 2004, Burgen Scholar Award, Academia Europaea.
- Supervision of of PhD's (U Helsinki): 4 completed, 2 submitted, 8 ongoing.
- Extensive teaching experience at the University of Helsinki 1998-2010, 2014-present, at Stockholm University 2011-2013
- Visiting teacher, e.g. at: University of Mainz 2007, University of Tallinn 2010, HSE Moscow 2018
- Teaching in summer schools: Societas Lingvistica Europaea Summer school, Tartu 2018; Kone Foundation Summer school on language description, Saari Manor, Finland, 2016
- Assessment of candidates for professorships: University of Tartu 2012, 2017, University of Eastern Finland 2017; and for docentships: University of Turku 2018, University of Gothenburg 2018
- Member of the linguistics expert panel at the Norwegian research council, 2013, 2014
- Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, 01/2017 - 12/2017
- Director of the Finnish doctoral training network in language studies, Langnet, 01/2016 - 12/2019
- Director of the MA programme Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Age, University of Helsinki, starting 01/2017
- Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Editor, 2012-present
- Societas Linguistica Europaea, Member of Nominating Committee, 2015 - 2020