CV

CV - Axel I. Palmér - 1994

Postdoctoral positions

Sep 2024 – Jun 2025 Junior Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden

Education

Sep 2019 – Mar 2024 PhD Candidate at Leiden University, the Netherlands

  • Dissertation title: “The prehistoric origin and spread of the Indo-Iranian languages: A linguistic test of hypotheses rooted in genetics and archaeology”
  • Funded by NWO programme “Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen”

Sep 2017 – Aug 2019 Research Master in Linguistics at Leiden University, the Netherlands

  • Summa cum laude
  • ResMA thesis: “Traces of Pre-Indo-Iranian: Chronological Layers and Structural Characteristics of Early Indo-Iranian Loanwords”

2015, -16, -18, -21      Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics

  • 2-week courses in various ancient languages

Sep 2016 – Jun 2017  Ancient languages at Uppsala University, Sweden

  • Latin (30 ECTS)
  • Ancient Greek (60 ECTS)
  • Old English (7,5 ECTS)
  • Classical Armenian (7,5 ECTS)

Sep 2013 – Jun 2016  Bachelor Programme in Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden

  • Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Indology (with distinction)
  • Bachelor’s thesis: “The allomorphs of the Vedic comparative suffix -yas-, -īyas-”

Conference presentations, lectures

Sep 2024                    Universität Basel, Switzerland

Oct 2023                     SCAS + Stockholm University, Sweden

Mar 2023                    Harvard University, USA

Mar 2023                    Harvard University, USA

  • Invited speaker, Reich Lab
  • Title: The European precursors of the Indo-Iranians

Nov 2022                    Uppsala University, Sweden

  • Invited speaker, Uppsala Indo-European Seminar
  • Title: The European precursors of the Indo-Iranians

Oct 2022                     University of Helsinki, Finland

Sep 2022                     Leiden University, the Netherlands

  • Conference presentation, Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft 2022
  • Title: Indo-Slavic lexical isoglosses as evidence for a Corded Ware origin of Indo-Iranian

Mar 2022                    Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

  • Conference presentation (Zoom), Indo-European Research Colloquium
  • Title: Traces of ‘Pre-Indo-Iranian’: Chronological layers and structural characteristics of early Indo-Iranian loanwords

Jun 2019                     University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Conference presentation, Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft 2019
  • Title: The Genitive Case in Hieroglyphic Luwian: New evidence for a distribution of the endings -as(a) and -asi

Mar 2019                    University of Barcelona, Spain

  • Workshop presentation, Luwic Dialects: Inheritance and Diffusion, 6th Workshop
  • Title: The distribution of the Hieroglyphic Luwian genitive case endings -as(a) and -asi

Teaching

Nov 2023 – Jan 2024 Leiden University, the Netherlands

  • Historical Grammar of Sanskrit (5 ECTS)
  • Tasks: giving lectures, creating study materials, creating and giving exams

Sep 2023 – Oct 2023  Leiden University, the Netherlands

  • Indo-European Phonology (5 ECTS)
  • Tasks: giving lectures, creating study materials, creating and giving exams

Sep 2021 – Jan 2022, Sep 2022 – Jan 2023   Leiden University, the Netherlands

  • Vedic Sanskrit (5 ECTS)
  • Tasks: giving lectures, creating study materials, creating and giving exams

Sep 2015 – Nov 2015 Uppsala University, Sweden

  • Tutor for first-year students
  • Tasks: giving tutorials, creating study materials

Publications

Palmér, Axel I. (2024), Indo-Slavic lexical isoglosses and the prehistoric dispersal of Indo-Iranian. PhD dissertation, Leiden University.

Thorsø Rasmus, Wigman Andrew, Jakob Anthony, Palmér Axel I., van Sluis Paulus, Kroonen Guus (2023), Word Mining: Metal Names and the Indo-European Dispersal. In: Kristiansen, K., Kroonen, G., & Willerslev, E. (Eds.). (2023), The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kroonen G, Jakob A, Palmér AI, van Sluis P, Wigman A (2022), Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages. PLoS ONE 17(10): e0275744. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275744

Palmér A.I. (2021), The Hieroglyphic Luwian genitive case: the synchronic distribution of the endings -as(a) and -asi, Indogermanische Forschungen 126(1): 167-204.

Palmér A.I., Jakob A.M., Nielsen R.T., Sluis P.S. van, Swanenvleugel C. & Kroonen G.J. (2021), Proto-Indo-European ‘fox’ and the reconstruction of an athematic ḱ-stem, Indo-European Linguistics 9(1): 234-263.

Klamer Marian, Edwards O.D.E., Fricke H.L.A., Gialitaki Z., Moro F.R., Palmér A.I, Saad G., Sulistyono Y., Visser E. & Wu J. (2021), Practicalities of language data collection and management in and around Indonesia, Wacana: Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora 22(2): 467-521.

Academic internships, conference administration

2021 – 2022                Leiden University, the Netherlands

  • Organizer assistant for the Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, “The Secondary Homelands of the Indo-European Languages”
  • Tasks: Planning and realizing conference activities, managing peer-review process, etc.

Oct 2018 – Jul 2019    Leiden University, the Netherlands

  • Student assistant in NWO-VICI Project “Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: the Lesser Sunda Islands”.
  • Supervisor: Prof. dr. M. Klamer
  • Tasks: Creating archives of collected data, evaluating algorithm of automatic cognate coding

Oct 2018 – Jan 2019   Leiden University, the Netherlands

  • Intern in ERC Starting Grant project “EUROLITHIC”
  • Supervisor: Prof. dr. G.J. Kroonen
  • Internship project: Proto-Indo-Iranian agricultural terminology
  • Tasks: linguistic data analysis, database management

2014 – 2017                Uppsala University, Sweden

  • Summertime research assistant at the Department of Scandinavian languages, Research group for national tests in Swedish and Swedish as a second language
  • Tasks: database documentation of tests, building corpus of student texts, analyzing teachers’ surveys.

Sep – Oct 2016                       Uppsala University, Sweden

  • Assistant at the symposium “The Function and Semantics of the Perfect in Indo-European Languages
  • Tasks: administrating registration, conference handouts etc.

Honours, prizes, scholarships and grants

Sep 2015 – Jun 2017  “Törnlund, for the Faculty of Languages”

  • Scholarships for dedicated students (0-1 each academic year) awarded by the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University
  • € 9000 p.a.