Caterina Mauri

Associate Professor at the University of Bologna since 2016, previously Researcher in Pavia. Her research focuses on linguistic typology, language change, and the analysis of spoken language, integrating these dimensions of variation. Formerly PI of the SIR project Linguistic expression of ad hoc categories, she currently coordinates the KIParla corpus of spoken Italian and the PRIN PNRR project 'DiversIta - Diversity in Spoken Italian'. Editor of several volumes, author of three monographs and numerous journal articles, she received the ALT Greenberg Award in 2009 and has been involved in national and international projects. Co-founder and editor of the journal Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads. As of October 2023, she is a member of the University's Quality Assurance Board. From 2025 she is part of the Working Group on CoARA. She coordinated the BA course on Languages, Markets and Cultures of Asia and Mediterranean Africa (2019-2022) and served on the University Committee for Research Evaluation (Area 10, 2020-2023).