The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is the leading research institute in the interdisciplinary area dealing with the investigation of information, information exchange, and cognition with formal and mathematical methods. It is deeply rooted in the Amsterdam logic research tradition dating back to the early twentieth century and covers the disciplines of mathematics, linguistics, computer science, philosophy and artificial intelligence with staff members from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam.
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Management Team
Since 1 September 2021, its management team consists of
Director: Prof.dr. Robert van Rooij
Vice-Director Research: Prof.dr. Benedikt Löwe
Vice-Director Teaching: Prof.dr. Khalil Sima`an
Director PhD programme: Dr. Floris Roelofsen
Institute manager: Peter van Ormondt -
Research Units
The ILLC is organised in six research units:
- MCL (Mathematical & Computational Logic)
Unit leader: Prof. dr. Yde Venema; deputy: Dr. Benno van den Berg - TCS (Theoretical Computer Science)
Unit leader: Prof. dr. Ulle Endriss; deputy: Dr. Ronald de Haan - FSPL (Formal Semantics & Philosophical Logic)
Unit leader: Dr. Luca Incurvati; deputy: Dr. Maria Aloni - EPS (Epistemology & Philosophy of Science)
Unit leader: Dr. Dingmar van Eck; deputy: Prof. dr. Arianna Betti - NLP&DH (Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities)
Unit leader: Dr. Katia Shutova; deputy: Dr. Jelle Zuidema - LMC (Language & Music Cognition)
Unit leader: Dr. Ashley Burgoyne; deputy: Prof.dr. Henkjan Honing
Contact details: see Contact and Directions.
- MCL (Mathematical & Computational Logic)