Joybrato Mukherjee

Joybrato Mukherjee (born 29 September 1973) is Professor of English Linguistics and the President of the University of Giessen. When he took office in 2009, he was the youngest university president ever appointed in Germany.

Born in the Rhineland in Germany as the son of Indian immigrants, Joybrato Mukherjee studied English Language and Literature, Biology and Pedagogy at the Technical University of Aachen, where he completed his master's degree and took the First State Examination (the teaching degree in Germany) in 1997. After a period as a trainee teacher and part-time teacher at the "Gymnasium am Wirteltor", Düren, he took the Second State Examination in 1999 and embarked on his doctoral studies at the University of Bonn with a major in English philology and minors in genetics and educational science. In 2000 he gained his PhD in English Linguistics with a dissertation on the interaction between intonation and syntax. It was also at Bonn that he completed his habilitation, for which he wrote a post-doctoral thesis on English ditransitive verbs, and that he received the venia legendi in 2003, the German authorisation to teach at university, in the field of English Philology.

in 2003, Joybrato Mukherjee was appointed to the chair of English Linguistics at the University of Giessen. His research interests include Applied Corpus Linguistics, English Syntax and Varieties of English. At the University of Giessen, he is a principal investigator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), which has been funded under the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments since 2006. He was President of the Executive Board of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) from 2011 to 2017.

Mukherjee has been Vice-President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) since 2012. Working alongside DAAD President Margret Wintermantel, he is part of the leadership of one of the most important funding organisations worldwide for the international exchange of students and researchers. In June 2015, he was re-elected to serve a second four-year term from 1 January 2016. Since 1 October 2016 he has been Speaker of the Conference of Hessian University Presidents. He is also a member of various advisory boards and boards of trustees.

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