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