Morten H. Christiansen received his PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1995. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Cornell University, Professor in Cognitive Science of Language at the School of Communication and Culture as well as the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, Denmark, and a Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs. His research focuses on the interaction of biological and environmental constraints in the evolution, acquisition and processing of language. He employs a variety of methodologies, including computational modeling, corpus analyses,  statistical learning, psycholinguistic experiments, and neuroimaging. Christiansen is the author of more than 225 scientific papers and has authored two monographs and edited four books.