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Itamar Shatz is an Affiliated Lecturer in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, within the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. He earned his PhD from Cambridge and is actively contributing to the field through research and teaching.
His educational journey culminated in a PhD from the University of Cambridge, though specific earlier academic credentials are not detailed in the provided texts.
Shatz's research centers on quantitative and computational approaches to language, particularly investigating how crosslinguistic lexical similarity affects second-language vocabulary usage. He also engages in open research and science communication. Outside his core academic role, he writes extensively on practical psychology and philosophy, aiming to enhance productivity, decision-making, and wellbeing, with a forthcoming book on procrastination to be published by Penguin Random House in late 2026.
In teaching, Shatz has lectured on Quantitative Methods for Analysing Language Data and Making Sense of Statistics, and supervised the First and Second Language Acquisition course at Cambridge.
