Chris Lasse Däbritz

Chris Lasse Däbritz is a science policy advisor at the Head Office of the German Science and Humanities Council. Until 2024, he was affiliated to the Institute of Finno-Ugric/Uralic Studies of the University of Hamburg, first as a research fellow in the research project INEL (Grammars, Corpora and Language Technology for Indigenous Northern Eurasian Languages; 2016-2022) and after that as the PI of a DFG-funded research project on the typology and information structure of locative and existential predications in languages of the Ob-Yenisei area. In 2020, he obtained his PhD in General Linguistics, with his thesis devoted to information structural patterns in Northwestern Siberian languages. In 2022, he published a corpus-based descriptive grammar of Dolgan. His research interests include Siberian languages, linguistic typology, non-verbal predication, as well as information structure, and beyond linguistics, current developments of research funding and peer review processes.