Mladen Uhlik (8 May 1977) is a researcher at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language and assistant professor at the Department of Slavistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His research deals with contrastive Slavic linguistics, specifically, comparison of Slovene with other South Slavic languages and Russian. At the Fran Ramovš Institute, he collaborates with the Department of Lexicology and the Department of Language Standardisation, where he deals with the issues of East Slavic loanword adaptation in Slovenian.

He is a member of the editorial boards of four international scientific journals: Philological studies (2014–), Književni jezik (2017–), Rhema. Rema (2017–), and Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta: nauchnyi zhurnal Series 9, Philology (2018–). He is also a member of the editorial board of Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics published by Brill (2021–). At the Department of Slavistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, he teaches courses related to Russian grammar: Russian Phonetics and Phonology, Russian Noun Morphology, Russian Verb Morphology, Russian Syntax, and Selected Chapters in Russian Linguistics.

Research Areas

• contrastive linguistics
• Slavic languages: Russian, South Slavic languages
• syntax
• semantics
• lexicology and lexicography

Education, Academic and Scientific Titles

• 2022: Associate Professor for Russian language and Russian linguistics, Department of Slavistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2021: research fellow at ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language
• 2019–2020: visiting professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Graz
• 2015: assistant professor for Russian language and Russian linguistics, Department of Slavistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2014: PhD thesis: L'émergence de la linguistique sociologique dans l'Union soviétique des annés 1920-1930 (The Emergence of Social Linguistics in the Soviet Union in the period 1920-1930), Faculty of Postgraduate Studies Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana
• 2007–2008, 2011–2012: Studying at the Department of Slavic Languages, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2003: BA degrees in Russian and French, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 1998: matura exam, Gimnazija Poljane, Ljubljana

Employments, Leadership Positions and Competences

Employments:

• 2021–: secondary employment, ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language
• 2019–2020: visiting professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
• 2010–: Department of Slavistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2008–2009: Gimnazija Škofja Loka, Škofja Loka

Leadership Positions:

• 2014–: head of the Russian language chair, Department of Slavistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2016–2018: coordinator of Erasmus + bilateral international project, International Credit Mobility, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science
• 2018–2021: coordinator of Erasmus + bilateral international project, International Credit Mobility, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science
• 2019–2022: coordinator of Erasmus + bilateral international project, International Credit Mobility, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and High School of Economics, Moscow

Supervisor:

• PhD theses supervision: Barbara Kopač (in progress), Katja Kitanovska (progress)
• MA theses supervision: Hrovatin Sara, Rok Mrvič, Petra Nedelko, Katarina Gomboc, Ana Dvoraček, Marko Hrovat, Mihela Božič, Nika Grizila, Matej Tratnik, Eva Ferme, Nastja Klajnšek, Matej Križanec, Urška Potočnik

Other Experience (visiting lectures):

• Moscow (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019), Belgrade (2018), Potsdam (2019), Tübingen (2019), Saint Petersburg (2017, 2021)

Work in Editorial Boards and Expert Commissions

• 2021–: member of the Accademic Assembly of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2014–: head of the Russian Language Chair, Department of Slavistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2014–: member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal Philological studies
• 2017–: member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal Književni jezik
• 2017–: member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal Rhema. Rema
• 2018–: member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta : naučnyj žurnal. Serija 9, Filologija.
• 2021–: member of the editorial board of Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics published by Brill, Leiden

Outstanding Achievements, Awards and Grants

• 2007–2008: Swiss Confederation Grant, University of Lausanne
• 2018: co-author of the publication in Voprosy jazykoznanija, the leading Russian linguistic journal (together with Andreja Žele)
• 2020: co-author of the article in Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics (together with Ekaterina Vladimirovna Rakhilina)
• 2022: co-author of the article in Cambridge Handbook of Slavic languages (together with Danko Šipka)