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Simon Poulsen is a PhD student and Research Fellow at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. He has been working on his PhD project "The relationship between Indo-Iranian and Greek" since September 2020 under the supervision of Thomas Olander. He also serves as a teaching assistant for the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (2024-2025) and previously worked as a research assistant on the "Connecting the Dots" project (2023-2024).
- MA in Indo-European Linguistics, University of Copenhagen (2019)
- BA in Indo-European Linguistics, University of Copenhagen (2016)
- Graduation from Odense Katedralskole (2013)
Simon Poulsen's research focuses on comparative Indo-European linguistics, particularly the relationship between Indo-Iranian and Greek language branches. He works on reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European language, linguistic phylogenetics, and examining significant innovations shared by Greek and Indo-Iranian in phonology and inflectional morphology. His work also connects linguistic findings to archaeological material cultures and prehistoric migrations. He has additional interests in language history of other language families, language variation, epigraphy, and runology.
His publications demonstrate expertise in linguistic phylogenetics, etymology, and the historical relationships between language families. His work spans from Proto-Norse studies to broader Indo-European linguistic questions, with particular focus on Greek and Indo-Iranian connections. He has also published on entomological etymology and runological topics.
- 3rd place for best MA thesis of the Society for Indo-European Studies (2019)
Simon Poulsen has taught part of the BA-course "Greek and Latin language history" and supervised BA theses. He is available to supervise exam papers or projects on Indo-European linguistics, phylogenetics, Greek or Indo-Iranian language history. His PhD project is funded by The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics as one of the free scholarships of the Faculty of Humanities.
He has been active in academic collaborations, including visiting researcher positions at Leiden University (2022) and the University of Pennsylvania (2022), and has presented at numerous conferences and workshops on Indo-European linguistics topics.
