Johanna Laakso#
| Membership Number: | 3943 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 – present Professor of Finno-Ugric studies, University of Vienna
- 1999 – 2000 Project researcher (leader of research project), University of Helsinki
- 1987 – 1999 Assistant (predoc/postdoc), University of Helsinki
- 1986 – 1987 Research assistant, Research Centre for the Languages of Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Finno-Ugric studies
- Historical linguistics
- Gender linguistics
- Language contact
- Minority languages
Honours and Awards
- 2008 - present Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2006 - present Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2006 Motivation award of the Alfred Kordelin Foundation (kannustuspalkinto, awarded each year to outstanding Finnish representatives of arts and research)
- 1990 Dissertation award (for an outstanding dissertation in Finnish and related languages) by the Funds of August Ahlqvist, Yrjö Wichmann, Kai Donner and Artturi Kannisto
