Tamás Biró Current affiliation: Institute of Phonetic Sciences, ACLC, University of Amsterdam. Contact info. Personal page. E-mail: birot@birot.hu.

Presently, I am a postdoc researcher at the University of Amsterdam, with an NWO Veni grant, as well as a Rothschild Foundation grant. Please click here for differerent descriptions of my current Veni research project.

A note on my name, its pronouciation and orthography.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 24, 1975, I studied physics, theoretical linguistics and Judaic studies at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. I was a PhD student (AiO, Assistant in Opleiding, Research Assistant) at the department for Humanities Computing (old web site), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands. My research project belonged to to BCN and to CLCG. The title of my project was: Implementation and machine learning for Optimality Theory. Here is an official description of it. This is an informal description of my research topic, strictly for non linguists!

Then, I was a a young research fellow at the department of Hebrew (Eötvös University, Budapest), a.k.a. Center for Jewish Studies, a.k.a. Institute for Ethnic and National Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Subsequently, I was employed by the Typological Database System Project (TDS) of the University of Amsterdam. Later, I became a temporary lecturer (universitair docent 2) at the University of Groningen. For a detailed CV, click here.

Download my dissertation (pdf, approx. 2 Mbyte), the "stellingen" (pdf, 21 kbyte), and summaries in English, Dutch and Hungarian.

List of publications.

Further stuff:

• Volume Changing Minds out of press early 2012.
• Workshop on Optimality Theory as a General Cognitive Architecture, at the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 20, 2011 in Boston, MA.
• OTKit version 1.0 published on 22/01/2010.
• Course descriptions.
• Workshop on Learning meets Acquisition: The learnability of linguistic frameworks from formal and cognitive perspectives.
• AVT/Anéla Dissertatieprijs 2007 (best dissertation in linguistics in the Netherlands). Report of the jury (in Dutch only).
• Workshop on Computational Phonology, September 26, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
• December 8, 2006: Workshop on Computing and Phonology
• ESSLLI 2005 Student Session, Edinburgh.
• The Archive for Religion & Cognition and The Centre for Religion & Cognition.
• Pictures about my Phd defense.
• A program checking whether your sudoku only has one solution.

Even though my full name is Tamás Sándor Bíró and I also studied in the Berzsenyi Daniel High School, I am not identical with a known physicist with the same name.

And here is my page in Hungarian.