Johan Rooryck

Johan Rooryck currently  is a co-coordinator of the European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS alongside Pierre Mounier, and a PI on the EU-funded ALMASI project that aims to build a non-profit, Diamond Open Access (OA) ecosystem across Europe, Africa and Latin America. He has been involved in various Open Access organisations and projects, from cOAlition S to the EU-funded DIAMAS, CRAFT-OA, and PALOMERA projects. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Diamond OA journal Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, a journal that transitioned to Diamond OA in 2016 when its Editorial Team and Board, as well as its reader and author community, decided to abandon the Elsevier-owned journal Lingua to found Diamond OA Glossa.  He is a member of the Academia Europaea, a doctor honoris causa of UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, and a visiting professor at Leiden University, where he held the chair of French linguistics from 1993 to 2020.