Wojciech Sowa

He is university professor of historical linguistics at the Jagellonian University of Krakow. He studied classical philology and Indo-European linguistics at universities in Krakow, Vienna and Cologne. He obtained his PhD in Greek dialectology in 2002, completing his post-doctoral degree of habilitation on the basis of the book Studien zum Phrygischen (2008) in 2010. Between the years 2002-2011 he was employed at Jagiellonian University (Chair of General and Indo-European Linguistics, Institute of Classical Philology) and at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Chair of Classical and Semitic Philology). Since 2009 he has been a guest professor at the Institut für Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft Universität Münster and since 2018 he has been a guest professor at the Institut für Alte Sprachen, Professur für Vergleichende Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. A scholarship holder both in Poland and abroad from the Foundation for Polish Science, a member of the Society for Indo-European Studies/Indogermanische Gesellschaft and since 2008 the Polish representative on its Presidium. From 2011-2019 he has been employed at the National Science Centre in the role of Discipline Coordinator for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and he has been the Chair of the HERA Network between 2016-2024.