Agnes KORN

Agnes KORN is a HDR Research Officer at the CNRS (UMR 8041 Center for Research on the Iranian World – CeRMI), focusing on historical and comparative linguistics, language typology, and Iranian languages. She has contributed to projects like TransPerse and Perspred, and her work includes documenting minority Iranian languages such as Baluchi and Bashkardi.

• Master's degree in linguistics (Indo-European studies), Vienna (1996)
• Doctorate in comparative linguistics, Frankfurt s/M (2003)
• HDR in comparative linguistics, Frankfurt s/M (2010)
• Qualified for university professorships in language sciences and several languages (2014)

Her research spans historical grammar of Persian, typological studies of Iranian languages, and the preservation of linguistic diversity. Projects include involvement with Abstracta Iranica, CartOrient, and the EpiPOM – CollEx-Persée initiative on medieval Near Eastern epigraphy.

• European Award of Iranian Studies (2007)
• Minerva Foundation Award (2008)
• Cambridge Visiting Fellowships (2015)

KORN has supervised doctoral theses via the INALCO doctoral school and collaborated with institutions such as the University of Cambridge. Her affiliations include the Paris Linguistics Society, Societas Iranologica Europaea, and Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen.