Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Melanie Malzahn
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Melanie Malzahn
OrcID: 0000-0003-2407-9094
Scopus ID: 25028008800
Academic positions
2012— | Full Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics |
2017—2022 | Direktor of the Akademievorhaben “Turfanforschung” (Turfan Studies) Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities / Berlin |
2011—2012 | Senior Postdoc and Principal Investigator, Univ. of Vienna |
2008—2010 | Recipient of an APART-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
2000—2008 | Pre- and postdoctoral assistant, Univ. of Vienna |
Academic services
2022— | Chair of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
2016—2022 | Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies |
2014—2016 | Vice dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies |
2012—2014 | Head of the Department of Linguistics |
Main research fields and teaching activities
- Indo-European linguistics (phonology, morphology, semantics)
- Comparative grammar of Tocharian
- Comparative grammar of Indo-Iranian
- Tocharian philology
- Vedic philology
- History and methods of Comparative Philology
Publications
lyuke wmer ra. Indo-European Studies in Honor of Georges-Jean Pinault, ed. by Hannes A. Fellner, Melanie Malzahn, Michaël Peyrot, Ann Arbor / New York: Beech Stave Press 2021
Zurück zur Wurzel – Struktur, Funktion und Semantik der Wurzel im Indogermanischen. Akten der Tagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 13. bis 16. September 2016 in Wien, hg. unter Mitarbeit von Hannes A. Fellner und Theresa-Susanna Illés, Wiesbaden: Reichert 2021
Tocharian Texts in Context. International Conference on Tocharian Manuscripts and Silk Road Culture held June 26–28, 2013 in Vienna, ed. together with Michaël Peyrot, Hannes Fellner and Theresa-Susanna Illés, Bremen: Hemen 2015
Instrumenta Tocharica (hg.). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2007 (Indogermanische Bibliothek. Lehr- und Handbücher)
Research project
Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations
A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts
Honors and Prizes
- Corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Associate member of the research group UMR 7528 “Mondes iranien et indien” (CNRS, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, INaLCO, EPHE)
- 2010 START Prize of the FWF – Austrian Sciences Fund
- 2008 APART-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Supervision since 2012
MA
PhD
2017 | Stefan Höfler | Der Stier, der Stärke hat. Possessive Adjektive und ihre Substantivierung im Indogermanischen; current position: Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellow University of Copenhagen |
2020 | Veronika Milanova | (Proto-)Indo-European kinship terms and society. A comparative study on formation, relative chronology and development of kinship terms in the Indo-European languages |