Training and professional background
Research interests
Project management
Awards and research grants
Participation in research projects
Teaching
Main publications and conferences
TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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 | 2007-2014: PhD in Environmental Science - University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation title: From Spiders to Languages: a phylogenetic journey. |
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| 2000-2005: Bachelor's Degree in Biology - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Thesis title: The Flora of Kastos Island, Ionian Sea, Greece |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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| Comparative and historical linguistics |
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| Application of phylogenetic methods in historical linguistics. Development of coding methods for lexical, phonological and morphosyntactic data. |
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| Integration of historical linguistics with archaeological, ethnographic and genetic data. |
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| Language families-subgroups: Tupí-Guaraní, Cariban. |
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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| Migration of the Tupí-Guaraní comparative lexical database on the RefLex platform. - in collaboration with Sebastien Flavier (DDL) |
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AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
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| 2007- 2010: Scholarship for PhD studies in biological sciences from the Greek National Scholarships Foundation. |
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| 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012: Walker Fund, Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 2009: Harvey J. Magy Scholarship in Entomology, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 2010: Robert L. Usinger Scholarship in Entomology, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 2014-present: LabEx ASLAN postdoctoral fellowship. |
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PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
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| Internal Classification of West Coastal Bantu using phylogenetic methods - in collaboration with Koen Bostoen and Sara Pacchiarotti (Ghent University, Belgium)
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| Evolution of genderlects in the Tupí family. - in collaboration with Françoise Rose (DDL). |
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| Internal Classification of the Cariban languages using phylogenetic methods. - in collaboration with Sérgio Meira and Joshua Birchall (Museu Parense Goeldi) |
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TEACHING
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| 2015: Course on phylogenetic methods as applied to historical linguistics covering distance methods, parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian Inference (designed and taught). |
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
SHOW LONG VERSION / SHORT VERSION
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PhDs and master thesis
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., 2014, "From Spiders to Languages: a Phylogenetic Journey", PhD Thesis, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
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Journals
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Michael, L., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Bartolomei, K., Donnelly, E., Wauters, V., Meira, S. & O'Hagan, Z., 2015, "A Bayesian Phylogenetic Classification of Tupí-Guaraní.", Liames, 15:2, pp. 193-221 (pdf)
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Conferences with proceedings
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Birchall, J., Meira, S., O’Hagan, Z. & Michael, L., 2016, "A test of coding procedures for lexical data with Tupí-Guaraní and Chapacuran languages", proc. of Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics, Leiden, 26-30 October 2015, Bentz, C., Jäger, G. & Yanovich, I. (eds), University of Tübingen, online publication system, Proceedings of the Leiden Workshop on Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics (abstract) (pdf)
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Conference presentations
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., 2018, "Phylogeny and Spread of Amazonian languages: What phylogenetic methods can(not) tell us.", Comparative mythology, population genetics, linguistic phylogenetics, and cognitive patterns: Studies in the new science of cultural diffusion., Paris, December 12-13
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Rose, F. & Chousou-Polydouri, N., 2017, "A comparative study of genderlects in the Tupi family", SSILA Annual Meeting, Austin, 6 janvier 2017 (slides)
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Birchall, J. & Meira, S., 2017, "A character-based internal classification of the Cariban language family.", The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual meeting, Austin, January 5-8
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Gasparini, N., Michael, L., O'Hagan, Z. & Rose, F., 2016, "Reconstructing Negation Morphemes and Constructions in the Tupí-Guaraní Family", Amazonicas VI, Leticia, Colombie, 24/04/2016
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Michael, L., O'Hagan, Z., Gasparini, N. & Rose, F., 2015, "Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphosyntactic Data. A case study of Negation in Tupí-Guaraní", Societas Linguistica Europeae, Leiden, 8 October 2015 (HAL)
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Chousou-Polydouri, N., Birchall, J., Meira, S. & O’Hagan, Z., 2015, " A test of coding procedures with Tupi-Guaranian and Chapacuran languages.", Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics Workshop, Leiden, October 26-30
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