Curriculum Vitae

born September 12, 1974, Heerlen, the Netherlands

current position: Associate Professor (Dutch: “Universitair Hoofddocent”), Department of Languages Literature & Communication, Humanities Faculty, Utrecht University

Career

2014 -, Associate Professor, Linguistics/AI, Humanities Faculty, Utrecht University
2011, Post-doctoral associate, Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US
2008-2013, Postdoc/Assistant Professor, Principle Investigator NWO VIDI, Linguistics/AI, Humanities, Utrecht University
2008-2011, Docent, Communication and Information Sciences, Humanities Faculty, Utrecht University
2005-2008, Postdoc, Principle Investigator NWO VENI, Humanities Faculty, Utrecht University
2004-2005, Postdoc, Graduiertenkolleg Satzarten, J.W. Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2003-2004, Postdoc, Niels Stensen project, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1999-2003, PhD candidate, Utrecht Institute for Linguistics, Promotores: H. de Swart & J. van Eijck, defended 21-11-2003

Academic Qualifications

2021, Ius Promovendi
2020, Senior Teaching Qualification (Dutch: “senior kwalificatie onderwijs”)
2018, Qualification for teaching in English (Dutch: “basiskwalificatie engelstalig onderwijs”)
2013, Senior Research Qualification (Dutch: “senior kwalificatie onderzoek”)
2012, Junior Teaching Qualification (Dutch: “basiskwalificatie onderwijs”)

Academic Tasks

2022-, Faculty contact person for research integrity
2022-, Programme coordinator research master Linguistics
2021-, Member of the Research Council for the Utrecht Institute for Linguistics / Institute for Language Sciences
2021-, Research Group leader of the research group Language, Logic and Information
2019-, Tutor for junior teaching qualification
2020-, Member of the curriculum committee MSc Artificial Intelligence
2017-2019, Member of the steering programme council MSc Artificial Intelligence
2016-2019, Chair of the curriculum committee BSc Artificial Intelligence
2014-2019, Track-coordinator “Reasoning” MSc Artificial Intelligence
2014-2016, Member of the board of examiners for research master programmes in humanities

Research Funding

2018-2024, NWO Vrije Competitie, 750k euro (sole applicant)
2013-2018, ERC Starting Grant - Consolidator stage (FP7), 1.3m euro (sole applicant)
2008–2013, NWO VIDI, 600k euro (sole applicant)
2005-2008, NWO VENI, 200k euro (sole applicant)
2004, Niels Stensen, 50k euro (sole applicant)

PhD Supervision

(year indicates the (expected) defence)

2028, Hugh Mee Wong
2028, Li Kloostra
2025, Ying Liu
2025, Tijn Schmitz
2025, Jan Winkowski
2019, Dominique Blok
2018, Stavroula Alexandropoulou
2014, Anna Chernilovskaya
2013, Lisa Bylinina

Academic Service

2013-2021, ``Editor in chief’’, Journal of Semantics, Oxford University Press
2014-2022, Member of advisory board, Semantics and Pragmatics, Linguistic Society of America
2009-2013, Editor, Journal of Semantics, Oxford University Press
2010-2013, Editor, Semantics and Pragmatics, Linguistic Society of America
2010-2015, Chair of the Dutch Linguistic Society
2014-2016, Member of selection committee NWO-VIDI
2013-2016, Member of selection committee XPrag.de Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft.
2014, Jury-president for ``Habilitation a diriger des recherches’’ (École Normale Supérieur, France)
2014, Jury-lid for ``Habilitation a diriger des recherches’’ (École Normale Supérieur, France)
peer review,
- for national funding agencies: Catalunya, Germany, Flanders, Israel, Canada, Czechia, UK
- journals: Journal of Logic Language & Information, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Natural Language Semantics, Journal of Semantics, Lingua, Glossa, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistics & Philosophy, Research on Language & Computation, Synthese, Semantics & Pragmatics, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Discourse Processes, Journal of behavioral decision making.

Published Books

2012, Sinn und Bedeutung, redactie met Ana Aguilar en Anna Chernilovskaya. MIT Working papers in Linguistics.
2011, Linguistics in the Netherlands, edited with Marion Elenbaas. AvT Publications 28. Benjamins.
2011, Vagueness in Communication, edited with Hans-Christian Schmitz, Robert van Rooij & Uli Sauerland. Springer LNCS.
2010, Linguistics in the Netherlands, edited with Jacqueline van Kampen. AvT Publications 27. Benjamins.
2008, Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, edited with Anna Asbury, Berit Gehrke and Jakub Dotlacil. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 120, Benjamins.
2003, Plural pronominal anaphora in context: dynamic aspects of quantification, Dissertatie, Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalkunde, LOT-84, 193 pages. ISBN90-76864-45-4.

Published Articles (peer-reviewed, from 2018)

2024, Semantic accessibility and interference in pronoun resolution. Glossa Psycholinguistics [With T. Schmitz, J. Dotlacil, J. Winkowski and M. Hoeks]
2024, Searching for semantic distance effects. Glossa Psycholinguistics 3(1) [With J. Winkowski and J. Dotlacil]
2024, Meiosis and hyperbole as scalar phenomena. Sinn und Bedeutung 28.
2024, The semantics and probabilistic pragmatics of deadjectival intensifiers. Semantics & Pragmatics 17(2)
2022, Unknown Numbers. In: Measurements, Numerals and Scales. Springer.
2020, Numeral Semantics. Language and Linguistics Compass 14:e12390, Wiley. [With L. Bylinina, co-first author]
2020, Is there any licensing in non-DE contexts? Sinn und Bedeutung 24, [With Stavroula Alexandropoulou en L. Bylinina]
2020, Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Utrecht Artificial Intelligence Program: Why and How? IEEE Pervasive Computing, 10.1109 [With Chris Janssen, Krista Overvliet, Frans Adriaans, Sjoert Stuit, Tejaswini Deoskar en Ben Harvey]
2020, E-type pronouns: congressmen, sheep and paychecks. The Companion to Semantics. Wiley.
2020, Degree modification across categories in Afrikaans. Linguistic Variation. [With R. Berghoff, L. Bylinina & Y. McNabb]
2019, Scalar vagueness regulation and locative reference. Snippets.
2018, Notes on moderate excess. In: A coat of many colours. http://dj60.be
2018, On “zero” and semantic plurality. Glossa 3(1). [With L. Bylinina, co-first author]
2018, Free choice and distribution over disjunction: the case of free choice ability. Semantics & Pragmatics 11.
2018, Experimental work on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Modified Numerals. In: Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, OUP.
2018, Cumulative comparison: experimental evidence for degree cumulation. In: The semantics of gradability, vagueness and scale structure. [With J. Dotlacil, co-first author]

Full list available via [[https://ricknouwen.org][ricknouwen.org]] or [[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=46CYgFYAAAAJ&hl=nl&inst=7240083048524121927&oi=ao][google scholar]].

Presentations

Invited talks (keynotes, colloquia, workshops, etc.): >40
Selected conference presentations: >40

Teaching (from 2013)

year	course title	programme
‘23, ‘24	Language, Information and Communication	RMA Linguistics
‘21, ‘22	Language meaning and use	BA Linguistics
‘21, ‘22, ‘23	Natural Language Processing	Msc AI
‘20,’21, ‘22, ‘23, ‘24	Formele en Natuurlijke Talen	Bsc AI
‘19,’20,’21, ‘22, ‘23	Reasoning about meaning	RMA Linguistics
‘18,’19,’23,’24	Finite State Automata, Numerus fixus-selectie / Matching	Bsc AI
‘16,’17	Experimentation in Linguistics and Psychology	Msc AI
‘15,’16,’17,’18,’19,	Inleiding Taalkunde voor KI	Bsc AI
‘13	Logic, Language and Cognition	Msc AI
‘13,’14,’15	Linguistic Modeling and Experimentation	Msc AI
‘14,’15,’16,’17,’18	Semantics and Pragmatics	RMA Linguistics
‘15,’16,’17	Cognitive Modeling	Msc AI
‘18	Methods in AI Research	Msc AI