Asifa Majid
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Asifa Majid FBA is a psychologist, linguist and cognitive scientist who is professor of language, communication and cultural cognition at the University of Oxford, UK.[1] She is the 2024 recipient of the Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building, awarded by the Cognitive Science Society.[2] In 2015 she won the Ammodo KNAW Award for fundamental research.[3] In 2024 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[4]
Majid's academic career began at the University of Glasgow, where she took first an undergraduate degree and then a PhD in psychology; she also worked there as a lecturer in 2000-2001. From 2001 to 2012 she was based at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, initially as a Marie Curie fellow and later as a scientific staff member and senior researcher. In 2012 she took up a position as professor of language, communication and cultural cognition at the Radboud University Nijmegen, during which time she was also an affiliated principal investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. In the Fall of 2012, Majid was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.[5] From 2012 to 2017 she held an NWO Vici research grant to study olfactory cognition and language cross culturally.[6]
In 2018 she was one of eight academics appointed as Inspirational Research Leaders and full professors at the University of York.[7] In 2022 she moved to become Professor of Cognitive Science in the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford, where she is also a fellow of St Hugh's College.
Majid has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2013[6] and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science since 2018.[7] She has also served as a member of the Governing Board (2016-2022) and Chair (2019-2020) of the Cognitive Science Society.[8]
