Velizar Sadovski#

• 2022 - present: EU R4 Senior Research Associate of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2024 simultaneously Research Group Leader, "Iranian Linguistics and Onomastics", Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• Simultaneously 2026 - present: e.o. Professor of Iranian Studies, University of Cagliari, Italy
• 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
• 2018 - 2019: Visiting Professor, University of Verona, Italy (International Programme in Historical Linguistics)
• 2013-10 - 2014-02: Visiting Professor, University of Cologne, Germany
• 2012-10 - 2013-02: Visiting Professor, University of Cologne, Germany
• 2012: Visiting Professor, University of Munich, Germany, chair of Indian Studies
• 2011-10: Visiting Professor, University of Cologne, Germany
• 2010: Visiting Professor, University of Munich, Germany, chair of Comparative and Historical Linguistics
• 2010 - present: Associate Professor, University of Salzburg, Austria - after the Austrian Habilitation as Universitätsdozent.
• 2009 - present: Visiting Professor, Leiden University, The Netherlands - long-term collaboration as the author of the Iranian Etymological Dictionary project and Iranian Studies Programme responsible for the Leiden Summer School (both since 2009)
• 2008 - 2020: Erasmus Visiting Professor at La Sapienza University of Rome (13 years of teaching a 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

• Indo-Iranian philology
• Indo-European studies (Language of Poetry)
• Comparative and historical linguistics
• Avestan philology
• Vedic philology
• Slavonic word-formation
• Indo-Iranian religious history

• 2023 - present: Holder of the National Scientific Habilitation of Italy, Rank I: Professore Ordinario, Rome, Italy
• 2024: Mercator Fellow and Senior Visiting Scholar, University of Bochum, Germany
• 2023: Gonda Fellow 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 (third mandate)
• 2014 - present: Elected member of the Scientific Board, Indo-Iranian Journal, Leiden, The Netherlands
• 2014: Grant of EUR 104,472.- conferred to Velizar Sadovski (Vienna) and Paola Cotticelli (Verona) by the Fritz von Thyssen Foundation, Germany
• 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
• 2012 - present: Foreign Member of International Association for Oriental and Mediterranean Studies (ISMEO), Italy
• 2009 - 2012: Foreign Member of the Italian Institute for Africa & the East (IsIAO; continued by ISMEO), Italy
• 2008 - 2012: Board Member of the international Society of Indo-European Studies / Indogermanische Gesellschaft

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