Till hösten är vi glada att kunna hälsa Panos Athanasopoulos välkommen till Lund! Han presenterar sig så här:
Panos Athanasopoulos will join Lund University as Professor of English Language and Linguistics in August 2023. His research is guided by two questions: Do speakers of different languages think differently? Does learning a new language change the way we think? Interdisciplinarity is at the heart of Panos’ work, which uses methods from psycholinguistics, experimental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. His PhD (2006) on the effects of second language acquisition on cognition earned him a Graduate Student Award from the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Since then, he has implemented novel paradigms to study the effects of colour terminology on colour categorical perception, the relationship between grammatical aspect and event representation, the lexicalization of path, manner and causation of motion and motion event cognition, the effects of grammatical gender on object and face perception, the count/mass noun distinction and the construal of individuation, and the cognitive flexibility that learning new languages confers on the human mind. He has served as General Editor of Language and Cognition and PLOS ONE, and since June 2019 he has held the Honorary position of Extraordinary Professor of General Linguistics at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Recent research programs have explored the effects of time metaphors on how we physically experience the passage of time (funded by the Swedish Research Council), and how language-specific concepts are represented in the bilingual brain (funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust). Panos’ research has been published in high-impact international peer-reviewed journals such as Applied Linguistics, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Language Learning, and Psychological Science, and his work has featured in documentaries for the BBC, in Science Magazine, in The Conversation, and in the TEDx Talks series.
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