Blasi, Damian
Social & Behavioural Sciences
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Department Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions
Keywords
linguistic diversity
language evolution
cultural evolution
language and cognition
Short biography
I started my career in Physics, obtaining a BSc in Physics (2009) and a MSc in Interdisciplinary and Statistical Physics (2010) both from the Balseiro Institute in Bariloche, Argentina. I then was awarded a PhD in Computer Science (2018) from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences while at the same time affiliated to the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, both based in Leipzig, Germany. Between 2015-2019 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Comparative Linguistics and the Psycholinguistics Laboratory at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. In 2019-2020 I was the Maury Green Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. From 2020-2023 I was a Harvard Data Science Initiative Fellow based at the Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab at Harvard's Human Evolutionary Biology Department. Since November 2023 I am an ICREA Research Professor.