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Linguist, editor, Open Access advocate

Johan Rooryck co-coordinates the European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS and is the scientific coordinator of ALMASI, an EU-funded project supporting Diamond Open Access across Europe, Africa and Latin America. He previously served as Executive Director of cOAlition S.
He helped establish Glossa: a journal of general linguistics as a Diamond Open Access journal in 2016 and served the journal in various editorial capacities since then. He held the chair of French linguistics at Leiden University from 1993 to 2020.
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.
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