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University of Innsbruck
Pius ten Hacken studied French and General Linguistics in Utrecht. After working in a European project on Machine Translation, he moved to Basel, where he worked at the computer science department and completed his PhD in English linguistics and his habiltation in General Linguistics. Then he moved to Swansea, where he was based in the French Department and set up a degree in Translation Studies. Since 2013, he has been a professor at the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His main research areas are word formation, terminology and lexicography. His latest monograph, co-authored with Renáta Panocová, is 'Word Formation as a Naming Device' (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).