Curriculum Vitae
Tiago Tresoldi — a short academic CV
A condensed academic CV. The full, current publication list lives on ORCID and Google Scholar; ongoing research is on the research page.
Present
- Insight Analyst, Etraveli Group, Uppsala · 2024–present
- Affiliate Researcher, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University · 2023–present
Positions held
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Uppsala University · 2021–2023
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena · 2018–2021
- Administrative Assistant, UFRGS, Porto Alegre · 2013–2018
- Security Analyst, Banrisul, Porto Alegre · 2010–2013
- Italian Language Teacher, ACIRS, Porto Alegre · 2006–2013
Education
- Ph.D., Language / History of Literature — UFRGS, Brazil · 2018
- M.A., Language / History of Literature — UFRGS, Brazil · 2010
- B.A., Italian Language and Culture — ICoN / Università di Pisa, Italy · 2008
- B.A., Portuguese & English — FURG, Brazil · 2007
Research
Computational historical linguistics: phylogenetics of languages and text traditions; sound correspondences and the inference of sound change; native South American languages (Tupí-Guaraní, Tupían, Arawan) and the Uralic family; lexical databases (Arca Verborum, GLED) and the CLDF ecosystem. See research for detail.
Software
Author and maintainer of open-source tools for computational linguistics — among them arcaverborum, gled, ngesh, maniphono, alteruphono, malign, dafsa, and nhandu. Full catalogue on the software page and on GitHub.
Selected publications
- Ferraz Gerardi, F., Tresoldi, T., et al. (2023). Lexical phylogenetics of the Tupí-Guaraní family. PLOS ONE 18(6).
- Tresoldi, T., et al. (2023). A Global Lexical Database (GLED) for Computational Historical Linguistics. Journal of Open Humanities Data 9.
- Tresoldi, T., et al. (2022). Managing Historical Linguistic Data for Computational Phylogenetics and Computer-Assisted Language Comparison. In The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. MIT Press.
- Tresoldi, T. (2021). Ngesh: a Python library for synthetic phylogenetic data. JOSS 6(66).
A complete list is on the research page.
Languages
Portuguese (native), English, Italian, and reading knowledge of several others.