Velizar Sadovski - Biography#

Velizar Sadovski is Senior Research Associate of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Leader of the Iranian Linguistics and Onomastics Department at its Institute of Iranian Studies.

Specialist in Old Indic and Old Iranian Philology, Indo-Iranian Linguistics, Comparative-Historical Indo-European Studies. M.A. (1996) and PhD (2001) from the University of Vienna, both summa cum laude. PhD dissertation "Entheos-bahuvrīhis and prepositional governing compounds in Rigveda". Employed at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1998, Founding Member of its Institute for Iranian Studies (2003-). After an internaitonal evaluaiton, Tenured Scientist at the Academy (2004). 2009 to 2011 Deputy Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies. In 2010 promotion to Senior Scientist.

Since 2010, Holder of the Austrian Habilitation as Associate Professor with Venia legendi in Indo-European Studies.

After the 2021 Academy career reform, promoted (2022) to Senior Research Associate, the new top-rank research position at the Academy equal to the highest EU career level of Leading Researcher (R4) in the European Union’s Framework for Research Careers.
Since 2023 Holder of the National Scientific Habilitation of Italy, Rank I: Professore Ordinario, in the field of Historical and Comparative Linguistics.

Research fields: Indo-Iranian Philology, Linguistics and Poetics; Ancient Indo-Iranian languages and literatures (Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan, Old Persian); Comparative-Historical Indo-European Studies: word formation (derivation, composition); Greek, Byzantine and Slavic Philology; Indo-Iranian syntax, stylistics & pragmatics; Indo-European poetry, myth, ritual and religion.

Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bologna, Rome (Sapienza), Naples (L’Orientale), Verona, Viterbo (Italy), Leiden (Netherlands), Salzburg (Austria), Bochum, Cologne, Munich (Germany). Gonda Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of the Sciences, The Netherlands. Senior Research Fellow of the Norwegian Institute of Philology, Norway. Senior Visiting Scholar with Mercator Fellowship, University of Bochum, Germany.

Series Editor: "Iranisches Personennamenbuch", "Grammatica Iranica", "Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik" 32-70, "Iranische Onomastik" (Vienna), "Studien zur historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft" 1-17, "Indogermanische Textlinguistik, Poetik und Stilistik" (Hamburg), "Indo-Iranica et Orientalia" (Milan), "Ritual Texts and Contexts" (Oslo).

Invited lectures: Athens, Basel, Bergamo, Berlin, Bochum, Bologna, Bonn, Brno, Bucharest, Cambridge, Cagliari, Cologne, Copenhagen, Cracow, Delhi, Dushanbe, Erlangen, Florence, Freiburg, Graz, Halle, Hamburg, Jena, Kyoto, Lausanne, Leiden, Liège, London, Marburg, Milan, Modena, Munich, Münster, Naples, Newcastle, Oslo, Palermo, Paris, Poznań, Ravenna, Rome, Salamanca, Salzburg, San Marino, St. Petersburg, Sofia, Strasbourg, Tartu, Uppsala, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Viterbo, Wrocław, Würzburg, Zürich.