Professor Aditi Lahiri CBE FBA MAE is the Director of the Language & Brain Lab and Professor of Linguistics at Oxford University.
She is currently also Principal Investigator of the MORPHON project (Resolving Morpho-Phonological Alternation: Historical, Neurolinguistic, and Computational Approaches) funded by the European Research Council (2016-2021). Prior to this the lab has hosted several other ERC projects including her first Advanced Investigator grant WORDS (2011-2016) and the FlexSR (Flexible Speech Recognition System) Proof of Concept Award (2015-2016).
Previously a professor at the University of Konstanz, and before that at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, she took up the Chair in Linguistics at Oxford in 2008, and presided over the inauguration of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.
Professor Lahiri's research programme employs a diverse range of methodologies, from cutting-edge brain imaging technology to palaeographic investigation of centuries-old manuscripts, with the overarching theme of investigating the mental representation and historical development of the sounds of human language.