Johanna Laakso
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Johanna Marja Leena Laakso (born 1962 in Helsinki) is a Finnish linguist and Finno-Ugrist based at the University of Vienna.[1][2][3]
Laakso studied Finno-Ugric languages, Finnic languages and general linguistics at the University of Helsinki from 1979 to 1990, graduating with a Cand.phil. in 1985, a licentiate in 1988, and a PhD in 1990.[2] Her doctoral thesis was on verbal derivational morphology in the Finnic languages.[2]
From 1987 onwards she worked as an assistant at the University of Helsinki, with stints as acting professor of Finnic languages in 1989–90 and acting professor of Finno-Ugric languages in 1991.[2] In 2000 she moved to the University of Vienna to take up her current position as professor of Finno-Ugric studies.[2]
Laakso has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2006, a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2008, and an elected member of the Academia Europaea since 2015.[4][5][6]
