Velizar Sadovski#
| Membership Number: | 7396 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://velizarsadovski.academia.edu/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8076-2328 |
| Publication Link: | https://velizarsadovski.academia.edu/cv |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present R4 Senior Research Associate of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2024 and simultaneously Group Leader, "Iranian Linguistics and Onomastics", Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- Simultaneously 2023-present: Holder of the National Scientific Habilitation of Italy, Rank I: Professore Ordinario, Rome, Italy
- 2024-05 - 2024-09 Senior Visiting Scholar (with a Mercator Fellowship), University of Bochum, Germany
- 2023-05 - 2023-11 IIAS Research Fellow, International Institute of Asian Studies (with a Gonda Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Netherlands), Leiden, The Netherlands
- 2013- ´10 - 2014-02 Visiting Professor, University of Cologne, Germany (semester-long Hauptseminar)
- 2010 - present Associate Professor, University of Salzburg, Austria - after the Austrian Habilitation asm Universitätsdozent.
- 2009 - present Visiting Professor, Leiden University, The Netherlands - long-term collaboration as the author of the Iranian Etymological Dictionary project and as the Iranian Studies Programme responsible, Leiden Summer School (both since 2009)
- 2008 - 2021 Erasmus Visiting Professor at La Sapienza University of Rome (14 years of teaching one different course each winter semester)
- 2005 - 2011 Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna (with a teaching contract for the Ravenna branch of the University, too), Bologna, Italy
- 1998 - 2021 Researcher (1998-2001), Junior Scientist (2001-2003), Tenured Scientist (2003-2009), Vice Director (2009-2011 mandate) and tenured Senior Scientist (2009-2021), Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- 2001 - 2022 simultaneously: University Lecturer (2001-2009) and Privatdozent (2010-2022), University of Vienna, Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- Indo-Iranian philology
- Indo-Iranian religious history
- Comparative and historical linguistics
- Slavonic word-formation
- Avestan philology
- Vedic philology
- Indo-European studies (Language of Poetry)
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Holder of the National Scientific Habilitation of Italy, Rank I: Professore Ordinario, Rome, Italy
- 2024 Mercator Fellowship as a Senior Visiting Scholar, University of Bochum, Germany
- 2023 Gonda Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts, The Netherlands
- 2024 - present Elected member of the Scientific Committee, Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Florence, Italy
- 2023 - present Member of the Executive Committee of the World Philology Union
- 2022 - present Member of the Scientific Committee, Digital Archive of Brief Notes & Iran Review (DABIR), University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- 2021 - present Board Member and Treasurer of the World Philology Union
- 2022 - present Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Association for the Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus (ASIAC), Italy
- 2019 - present Senior Associate Fellow, Norwegian Institute of Philology, Norway
- 2019 - present Full Member of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft – Indian Studies Dpt, 2019– and Iranian Studies Dpt., Germany
- 2019 - 2023 International Advisor of the ERC Start Grant Project Pre-Classical Anatolian Languages in Contact, Verona, Italy
- 2018 - present Elected member of the Scientific Board, Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerche per la Computerizzazione dei Segni dell’Espressione, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
- 2018 - present Elected member of the Scientific Board, Institut für Religion und Frieden, Vienna, Austria
- 2018 - present Elected Oridinary ember of the Doctoral College, Joint PhD Programme in Philological, Literary, Historical & Cultural Studies of the Universities of Cagliari, Edinburgh & Cracow (UJ), since 2023 Cagliari, Italy
- 2016 Board Member of the Council for Literary Translation at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture, Austria
- 2016 - present Elected member of the Scientific Committee, Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, Milan, Italy
- 2016 - present Elected member of the Scientific Board, Lumina series, Genoa, Italy
- 2015 - present Elected member of the Scientific Committee, Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli – Sezione Linguistica (AION L), Naples, Italy
- 2014 - 2016 Board Member of the Society of Indo-European Studies (second mandate)
- 2014 - present Elected member of the Scientific Board, Indo-Iranian Journal, Leiden, The Netherlands
- 2014 Grant of EUR 104472 conferred to Velizar Sadovski (Vienna) and Paola Cotticelli (Verona) by the Fritz von Thyssen Foundation, Germany
- 2012 - present Foreign Member of International Association for Oriental and Mediterranean Studies (ISMEO), Italy
- 2010 - present Austrian Habilitation as Associate Professor with the Venia legendi as Privatdozent of Indo-European Studies, Salzburg, Austria
- 2010 - present Speaker of the international Multilingualism Research Group, Vienna/Oslo/Rome, https://www.philology.no/multilingualism
- 2009 - 2012 Foreign Member of the Italian Institute for Africa & the East (IsIAO), Italy
- 2008 - 2012 Board Member of the international Society of Indo-European Studies / Indogermanische Gesellschaft
