Simo Parpola#
| Membership Number: | 2117 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - 2006 Senior Epigrapher, Ziyaret Tepe excavations, University of Akron
- 1999 Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University
- 1998 - 2000 Chairman of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project
- 1997 - 2001 Director of the State Archives of Assyria Centre of Excellence, University of Helsinki
- 1995 Visiting Professor (Professore contratto) at the University of Padua
- 1986 - 95 Director of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Academy of Finland
- 1982 Research Associate and Consultant of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
- 1978 Professor of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki
- 1977 - 1979 Associate Professor of Assyriology (with tenure) at the University of Chicago
- 1973 - 1976 Docent of Assyriology and Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki
- 1969 - 1972 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the University of Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Epigraphy of the Akkadian language
- Semitic languages
- Assyrian theology
- Classical philology
Honours and Awards
- 1992 Finnish Professor of the Year
- 1996 J.V. Snellman Public Information Award of the University of Helsinki
- 2001 Honorary Member of the American Oriental Society
- 2001 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2003 Honorary Member of the Finnish Science Center, Heureka
- Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Member of the the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
- Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
