Marcus Andreas Kracht is a professor at Bielefeld University (Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies) and holds a position at Károli Gáspár Reformed Church University in Hungary. His academic career spans mathematics, cognitive science, and linguistics, with habilitations in both mathematics and general linguistics. Freie Universität Berlin: PhD in Mathematics (1991), Habilitation in Mathematics (1997) University of Edinburgh: MA in Cognitive Science (1988) University of Potsdam: Habilitation in General Linguistics (1999) His research bridges modal logic, computational linguistics, and formal semantics. Key areas include logic for computer scientists, spatial semantics, syntactic theories, and compositionality. He has supervised PhD students like Jens Michaelis and served as opponent in doctoral defenses at UCLA and Bielefeld University. Recent publications focus on compositionality, logic of action, and markup language foundations in computational linguistics. His work has been recognized with prestigious awards including the Heisenberg Research Fellowship and Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes scholarship. Organized ESSLLI Summer School and Mathematics of Language conferences Guest professorships at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus and University of California, Los Angeles






