About me

I am Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA).

I am a member of the Universitat de Barcelona research community: I am a member of the Institute of Neuroscience, the Institute of Complex Systems, and of the General Linguistics section. Before joining ICREA, I was first Assistant, then Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, and a member of their Mind-Brain-Behavior Initiative.

I am the author of numerous books, including Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Bare Syntax (2008), Language in Cognition (2009), Elementary Syntactic Structures (2014), and Reflections on Language Evolution (2021), and the editor of numerous volumes.

I have received numerous awards both for my research and teaching. Recently, I was elected to the Academia Europaea.