Martine Robbeets obtained her first MA in Japanese Studies from the University of Leuven in 1996. She completed a second MA in Korean languages and cultures at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1998. From 1998 to 2003 she was appointed as an academic assistant at the department of comparative linguistics in Leiden where she studied the historical relationship between Japanese, Korean, the Tungusic languages, the Mongolic languages and the Turkic languages. In 2003 she completed her Ph.D. on the Altaic affiliation question under supervision of Prof. Dr. F. Kortlandt. In 2004 and 2005 she carried out research in the field of Japanese historical linguistics at the University of Tokyo with the support of the Canon Europe Foundation and the Japan Foundation. From 2006 to 2008 she lectured and researched at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz in Germany. As a postdoctoral fellow in Mainz she was hosted by Prof. Dr. Dr. Johanson and supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. From 2007 to 2008 she replaced the head of the general and comparative linguistic department in Mainz, Prof. Dr. W. Bisang. In 2009 she became a research fellow at the department of linguistics in Leuven, funded by a return grant to promote the reintegration of Belgian researchers working abroad from Belgian science policy. Currently, she combines this position with a research project granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the general and comparative linguistic department of the University of Mainz.

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Martine Robbeets
University of Leuven
Department of Linguistics
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
PO Box 3308
B-3000 Leuven (Belgium)
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+32 16 32 48 18
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+32 16 32 47 67
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