CV

Scientific activities and collaborations in the following countries

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and USA

Honors, fellowships, grants, etc. (since I moved to Austria)

2026 Invited editor of a special issue of Languages on affixation in the world’s languages

2026 Invitation by the German Economy Chamber in Austria | Deutsche Handelskammer in Österreich, Brains on Silicon x SAXONY!visit in Dresden | Delegationsreise zu KI und Cybersecurity nach Sachsen, September 2026

2026 Invited AI specialist at Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany, April 2026 (providing advice on how to use AI for scientific research in historical linguistics)

2024 Invitation to be part of the newly created international expert panel of the Slovak  Research and Development Agency 

2022- Evaluator, Times Higher Education World University Rankings (by invitation only)

2021 Invited volume editor, De Gruyter Mouton (Berlin)

2021 Invited contributor, Oxford Handbook of Iconicity

2020 Invited contributor, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology 

2020 Invited expert, “evaluation of research and professional activities of research-oriented Institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the period 2015–2019”

2019 Invited contributor, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Morphology 

2018 Invited contributor, Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Linguistics (online only)

2017 PhD examiner (Education, Foreign Language Teaching and Learning), University of Sydney, Australia

2017- Invited certified expert of the Slovak Research and Development Agency 

2015- Invited curator, Subtractive Morphology, Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics

2015 Host of a short visit grant (AMU Poznań PhD-student’s project)

2015 Host of an ESF short-visit grant, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 7019 

2014 Host of an ESF short-visit grant, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 7006

2014- Jury (national level, Vienna, Austria) at the language contest SAG'S MULTI!

2014 Invited volume editor, Oxford University Press (New York)

2013- Invited curator, Affixation, Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics

2013 University of Vienna Innovative Teaching Award, with the MEi:CogSci team

2013- Pool of experts of the National Science Centre of Poland

2013 NetWordS support to attend the annual workshop of the network in Dubrovnik, Croatia

2013 Host of an ESF short-visit grant, NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Individual Grant 5565

2013 Postdoctoral selection committee at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with P. M. Bertinetto (SNS  Pisa) and G. Booij (Leiden University)

2013 Grant from the European Science Foundation (ESF), NetWordS-09-RNP-089 / Grant 5566

2012 Invited contributor, Word-Formation. An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe (De Gruyter, Berlin)

2012 Teaching grant from the Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies 

2011 PhD defence President, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 

2011 PhD examiner (Language and Cognition, Slavic and General Linguistics), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 

2011 Support from the Erste Bank, Vienna  (for 3rd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order) 

2010 Invited scholar, V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian National Corpus Section, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

2010 Open Access Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 

2009 Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), V64-G03 (2nd part)

2009 Dean's Office Grant, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order) 

2009 Support from the Mayor of Vienna (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)

2009 Support from the Erste Bank, Vienna  (for 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order)

2008 Invited to a position of a qualified rank, Stony Brook University, SUNY, USA

2007 Elise Richter Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Grant V64-G03 (1st part)

2006 Grant prolongation, Austrian National Bank (Bulgarian morphology)

2006 Awarded Austrian citizenship as a promising scholar, § 10 Abs. 4 StBG 1985

2003 Grant from the Austrian National Bank (Bulgarian Morphology)

2002 Travel grant from the Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, Junta de Andalucía (Spain), to read an invited paper at the Seminar on Conversion / Zero-Derivation, held in conjunction with the 10th International Morphology Meeting, Szentendre, Hungary

Invited speaker

2026 What should a linguist know about LLMs / AI? Invitation by the organization of Emerging Linguists at the University of Vienna, July 8.

2026 AI and Archaeolinguistics, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. Jena and online, April 15.

2026 Тринадесети форум „Българска граматика“ / 13th “Forum Bulgarian Grammar”, plenary speaker invitation. Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Ljubomir Andrejčin of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Department of Bulgarian language of the University of Sofia, Sofia, October 19-20. (Unfortunately, I had to turn down).

2026 Lifelong Learning in Humans and Machines: Training, Self-Learning, Knowledge Consolidation During Sleep, RAG, and Related Issues. Special topic of interest, Linguistics Meets ChatGPT. June 22-23. Online.

2026 The machine as a text writer: AI-generated vs. human-written texts, differences, and how they arise. Special topic of interest, Linguistics Meets ChatGPT. May 21-22. Online.

2026 The machine as a reader and evaluator of scientific texts. Special topic of interest. Linguistics Meets ChatGPT. April 27-28. Online.

2026 The Grand Unified Theory of AI: Language, Image, and Sound. Special topic of interest, Linguistics Meets ChatGPT. March 23-24. Online.

2023 Fourth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology, Dubrovnik, October 5-6.

2023 Inflection and derivation in the Slavic verb, workshop in honor of the late Morris Halle, 56th  Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2023), Athens, August 29 - September 1. (recruited talk)

2022 Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF), Princeton University, NJ, December 2-3.

2022 Natural Language Processing Without Grammar, Cognitive Science Research in Vienna, University of Vienna, November 22.

2022 Diminutivization, allomorphy and the architecture of grammar: phonology before morphology and syntax. Introduction to DMTD3, 20th International Morphology Meeting (IMM), Budapest, September 1-4. 

2021 Current Perspectives and Directions in Recent Research in Slavic Languages. Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University, November 17. (online)

2021 Deriving Language Structure with N-Grams: The End-to-end N-Gram Model - EteNGraM. MEi:CogSci Lecture Series, October 19. 

2021 Diminutivization across languages and frameworks. Introduction to DMTD1, 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, online, August 30. (with Boban Arsenijević, Laura Grestenberger and Katharina Korecky-Kröll)

2020 Natural language processing with n-grams: A linguistic solution to the zero-frequency problem. Cognitive Science in Vienna. Ring Lecture, University of Vienna, November 3.

2019 Writing texts with n-grams: The Fibonacci sequence in linguistics. Cognitive Science in Vienna. Ring lecture, University of Vienna. October 15.

2018 Young animals and diminutives in Bulgarian and other Slavic languages: A contrastive study with emphasis on derivational paradigms, Bǎlgaristični ezikovedski četenija organized on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Sofia, November 19.    

2018 Language Processing and Morphology. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, October 16. 

2017 Word structure in language processing. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, November 28.

2017 What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental and computational approaches to the relation of meaning and form in morphology. WS introduction, 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich, September 10-13. (with Harald Hammarström and Itamar Kastner)

2017 Forma di citazione e forma di accesso lessicale. Uno studio sperimentale sui verbi italiani e bulgari. Seminario, Scuola Universitaria Superiore, Pavia, May 3. (with Pier Marco Bertinetto and Chiara Finocchiaro, presented by PM Bertinetto).

2016 Word-formation and the organization of the mental lexicon. Lecture in Cognitive Science. University of Vienna. November 29.

2015 Word-formation in the mental lexicon. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, December 1.

2015 Word-formation, cognition and the organization of the mental lexicon. Presentation of current research at the 4th Annual Lecture in Cognitive Science. University of Vienna,  April 28. (poster with Bartosz Brzoza)   

2014 Cognitive concepts in word-formation. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, November 25.

2013 Lexical semantics and cognition. Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, November 12.

2013 Suffix ordering in Italian and Russian: A cognitive approach. 3rd Annual Workshop of NetWordS (the European Network on Word Structure), Dubrovnik, September 19-20. (reporting joint work with L. Talamo)   

  

2013 Semantically-conditioned two-suffix constructions in English and Bulgarian. 3rd Annual Workshop of NetWordS (the European Network on Word Structure), Dubrovnik, September 19-20. (with A. Bagasheva)  

2013 (De)composing the Slavic word: A domain-specific approach to affix order. CogSci-Talk. Cognitive Science Platform, University of Vienna, June 19.  

2013 A cognitive approach to suffix ordering: Two-suffix constructions in English and Slavic. Seminar of the Laboratorio di Linguistica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, May 17.    

2013 Word-formation in English and Slavic: A typological view. Seminar of the Department of British and American Studies, University of Sofia, March 14th.

2013 Word-formation and cognition: The role of syntax and semantics. Seminar of the Central and Eastern European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, March 13.

2012 Word-formation and cognition. Department of Philosophy / Research Platform Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, November 20.

2011 Suffix combinations in English and Bulgarian, with some comparisons to Russian and Polish. Seminar of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, December 15. 

2010 Invited chair of the panel ‘Rules of Language’. KogWis 2010 – The 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science, Potsdam, October 3 – 6.

2009 Restrictions on recursive diminutivization in Slavic. Workshop on recursiveness in word-formation. 42 Annual Meeting of the Societas Lingusitica Europaea, Lisbon, September 9 – 12. (recruited talk)

2009 Affix order in the Slavic word: parsability, closing suffixes and related issues. State University of New York at Stony Brook, February 4.

2007 Zatvarjašti sufiksi v bălgarskija ezik / Closing suffixes in Bulgarian. Lingvističen seminar na Sofijskija universitet / Linguistic Seminar of the University of Sofia, November 27.

2005 Wie kompliziert ist die bulgarische Verbalflexion? Institut für Slawistik der Universität Wien, December 12.

2004 Bulgarian verbs as a dynamic system. University of Surrey, Guildford, July 27.

2004 Subtrakcijata kato vid morphologična texnika / The morphological technique of subtraction, Lingvističen seminar na Sofijskija universitet / Linguistic Seminar of the University of Sofia, May 20. 

2002 Conversion versus modification and subtraction. Workshop on Conversion / Zero-Derivation, 10th International Morphology Meeting. Szentendre, May 12. (with Wolfgang U. Dressler).

Grants and awards won by my advisees 

2017 Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) competitive graduate student award,

won by Dušan Ptáček. (Awarded for our joint paper Second-grade 

diminutives in Czech and Slovak: A contrastive study with data from 

corpora.)

2016 Short-Term Grant Abroad / Kurzfristiges Auslandsstipendium (KWA)

for 3 months, International Office of the University of Vienna, won by Alastair

L. Brown. (Awarded for the project Processing Contrasts in the Mental

Lexicon: Phonological Asymmetries that I supervised.)

2015 Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) competitive graduate student

award, won by Bartosz Brzoza. (Awarded for our joint paper on the

processing and representation of suffix combinations in Polish.)

2015 Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB) travel

grant. Won by Bartosz Brzoza. (Awarded for our joint paper on suffix ordering

in Polish.)

2014 European Science Foundation (ESF) short visit grant. Won by

Bartosz Brzoza. (Project on the combinability of Polish derivational suffixes;

the project was based on my research on the topic and I hosted and advised

it in Vienna.)