Takuya Takahashi, Dr.
Postdoc
Geographic Information Systems
Room number: Y25 J 80
takuya.takahashi@geo.uzh.ch
CV
| 2025 - present | University of Zurich, Postdoc in the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution |
| 2023 – present | University of Zurich Postdoc in Geographic Information Science |
| 2022 - 2023 | Meiji University, Postdoc |
| 2021 - 2022 | JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2020 - 2021 | JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Doctoral Fellow |
| March 2021 | PhD in biology Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. M.S. in biology. |
| March 2018 | M.S. in biology Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. |
| March 2016 | B.S. in biology Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. |
Research Interest
My research is focused on the geographical distribution of cultural traits, languages and dialects in particular.
I am working on
- developing mathematical or statistical models representing the spatial evolution of dialects/languages, and
- applying phylogenetic methods to linguistic data.