Surrey Professor to serve on European Research Council: The Human Mind and its complexity
Monday 25 February 2008
University of Surrey’s Professor Greville Corbett has been invited to sit on the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Panel; "The Human Mind and its Complexity" from 2009. This is a new venture. The ERC was set up in 2007 and launched its starting grants for younger researchers. Now the Advanced Grants have been announced, and the purpose of the panel is to evaluate research throughout Europe with a view to awarding advanced grants to world-class researchers based exclusively on excellence.
There will be two panels, which will be active every other year. Each panel will be composed of approximately 12 academic members from across Europe.
Professor Corbett comments on his appointment: "I am very glad to be involved in this new scheme, which will be distributing substantial sums in research funding across a wide range of disciplines."
Professor Greville Corbett is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Surrey, where he leads the Surrey Morphology Group (http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/) . His areas of research interest include: typology; morphology (especially Network Morphology); morphosyntactic features; colour terms; and the Slavonic language family especially Russian.