Albert Bastardas i Boada

Ph. D. CIRB (Centre International de Recherche sur le Bilinguisme), Université Laval, Quebec, Canada. Visiting professor and researcher (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; University of California, Berkeley, USA; York University, Toronto, Canada. Professor of Sociolinguistics, and Language Ecology and Language Policy, Department of General Linguistics, Universitat de Barcelona (since 1987). First director of CUSC (Centre Universitari de Sociolingüística i Comunicació) (1998-2010), and coordinator of the research group on Complexity, Communication and Sociolinguistics (Sociocomplexity). Researcher of UBICS – Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems. Member of the editorial board of Revista de llengua i dret, LSC – Llengua, societat i comunicació, and Open Linguistics. Director of the research project on ‘Globalization, intercommunication and national languages in medium-sized language communities’ (2010-12). Partner of the project ‘Globalization and social and family plurilingualism in medium-sized language communities in Europe’ (2013-15). Director of the research project ‘EVOGEN – The (inter)generational evolution of bilingualizations. Language context, maintenance and shift’ (2016-19).