Johann-Mattis List

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Johann-Mattis List is Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Previous to this appointment, he was Research Fellow at the Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale in Paris. In his research, he pursues a data-driven, empirical and quantitative perspective on language change and history, with a special focus on South-East Asian languages. He reviews for a variety of journals, such as Biology & Philosophy, Current Anthropology or the Journal of Historical Linguistics. For his Ph.D. he won the ‘Best Dissertation of the Philosophical Faculty’ prize awarded by the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 2013.