Linguists Professor at the University of Stuttgart Artemis Alexiadou will be awarded the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2014 for her successful and prolific research career in the field of modern grammatical theory.

Born in 1969 in Volos, Greece, Artemis Alexiadou studied philology and linguistics in Athens and Reading before moving to Potsdam, where she wrote her doctorate and then habilitated in 1999. After receiving a Heisenberg fellowship from the DFG, she was appointed professor of theoretical and English linguistics at the University of Stuttgart in 2002.

The Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German research foundation) every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. The award ceremony for the Leibniz Prizes will be held on March 12, in Berlin.