Biography:Simon J. Greenhill

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Simon J. Greenhill
NationalityNew Zealand
OccupationScientist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Doctoral advisorRussell Gray
Academic work
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for the Science of Human History;
Australian National University
Main interestsEvolution, computational phylogenetics, quantitative comparative linguistics

Simon J. Greenhill is a New Zealand scientist and linguist who works on the application of quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory. He is well known for creating and building various linguistics databases, including the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database,[1][2] TransNewGuinea.org,[3] Pulotu,[4] and many others.

He is a graduate of University of Auckland, New Zealand.[5]

Greenhill is currently a scientist affiliated with the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: from bioinformatics to lexomics". Evol Bioinform Online 4: 271–83. November 2008. doi:10.4137/ebo.s893. PMID 19204825. 
  2. ↑ R. D. Gray, A. J. Drummond, and S. J. Greenhill. Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement. Science, 2009; 323 (5913): 479 doi:10.1126/science.1166858
  3. ↑ Greenhill SJ. 2015. TransNewGuinea.org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141563.
  4. ↑ Watts J, Sheehan O, Greenhill SJ, Gomes-Ng S, Atkinson QD, Bulbulia J & Gray RD. 2015. Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0136783.
  5. ↑ Our research. Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database.
  6. ↑ "Simon J. Greenhill's publications". Max Planck Institute. https://www.shh.mpg.de/229046/greenhill-simon-j. 

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