Asifa majid max planck biography

Psychologist, linguist and cognitive scientist

Asifa MajidFBA is a psychologist, linguist and cognitive scientist who is professor of language, communication and cultural cognition at the University of Oxford, UK.^[1] She is the 2024 recipient of the Jeffrey L.

Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building, awarded by the Cognitive Science Society.^[2] In 2015 she won the Ammodo KNAW Award for fundamental research.^[3] In 2024 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.^[4]

Biography

Majid's academic career began at the University of Glasgow, where she took first an undergraduate degree and then a PhD in psychology; she also worked there as a lecturer in 2000-2001.

From 2001 to 2012 she was based at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, initially as a Marie Curie fellow and later as a scientific staff member and senior researcher. In 2012 she took up a position as professor of