PERSONAL
- Mikhail Kopotev, PhD, Adj. Prof.
- born 27 September, 1973
- Mother tongue: Russian
- Other tongues: English, Finnish, German
- Hobbies: badminton, travelling, reading
EDUCATION AND DEGREES AWARDED
- 2024: A member of the Teacher Academy, Finland
- 2020-2022: Professor, The Higher School of Economics, Russia
- 2015: Fulbright Senior Scholar, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
- 2013: Principal Investigator, Department of Languages, University of Helsinki
- 2011: Docent (Doctor habilitatus), University of Helsinki,
Finland
- 2009: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Helsinki,
Finland
- 2004-2009: Doctoral program in Russian linguistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 1999: Licentiate (Kandidat filologicheskih nauk), Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
- 1995-1998: Postgraduate program in Russian and General linguistics,
Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
- 1990-1995: Graduate program in Russian language and literature (MA), Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- 2023: Professor, Davis Russian school, Middlebury college, USA
- 2023-: Affiliate Professor, University of Stockholm, Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
- 2012-: Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Languages, University of Helsinki
- 2019-22: Professor, director of a MA program, the Higher School of Economics, Russia
- 2017: Lecturer, Davis Russian school, Middlebury college, USA
- 2001-2012: Researcher, Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, Helsinki University
- 1995-2000: Senior lecturer, Department of Russian Language, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
ONGOING RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
- Automatic collocation and colligation extraction:CoCoCo project
- Revita: Learning from stories:REVITA
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- University courses on history of the Russian language, Russian grammar,
corpus linguistics, general linguistics, computer linguistics
- Invited guest lectures in different universities (Harvard, Peking University, Iowa State University, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Saint-Petersburg State University, etc.)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Corpus linguitics, cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics, teaching methodology, heritage language, plagiarism detection
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
A member of program and steering committees
- Aplied and experimental linguistics Program's steering committee, Saint-Petersburg State University (2017-2022)
- EDUFI (CIMO) Finnish-Russian Winter school (2016-2022)
- Biennial International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing (2012-)
- Corpus lingvistics Conference (Saint-Petersburg, 2006-2022)
A member of the editorial and/or advisory boards
- Slovo: Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Uppsala, 2014-)
- Structural and Applied Linguistics (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2015-2022)
- Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin (Novosibirsk, 2014-2022)
PUBLICATIONS
- See a separatelist.