The Department of Linguistics congratulates Thomas Hörberg who has been promoted to docent (corresponds to associate professor or reader) by the Board of the Faculty of Humanities.
Thomas Hörnerg is currently working as a researcher at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
On 13 September the Board of the Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm University decided to accept Thomas Hörberg as docent in linguistics. The Swedish title docent is equivalent to associate professor or reader in English.
In order to determine whether there is a “universal” olfactory-semantic space, this project investigates semantic differences and similarities between vocabularies used to describe odors in culturally diverse languages.