Dr. Niklas Wiskandt
(he/him)
Postdoctoral research associate @ HHU Düsseldorf
Department of Linguistics — Morphology & Syntax Group
Building 23.21 — Room 04.081 — Universitätsstraße 1 — D-40225 Düsseldorf — Germany
+49 211 81-11939
Education
- 2025 — PhD (Dr. phil.), General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- Thesis Alternations of object-experiencer predicates. Studies on detransitivization and light verb constructions in the psych domain submitted in 07/2025, defended in 12/2025
- 2019 — Master of Arts, General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 2017 — Bachelor of Arts, Romance Studies & General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Publications
– see Outputs page –
Service to the profession
- Journal manuscript reviewing
- Folia Linguistica
- Probus – International Journal of Romance Linguistics
- Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics
- Abstract reviewing
- SLE
- APLL
- Workshop organization
- September 2023 — Workshop on “Psych predicates in Romance languages” in Düsseldorf (co-organized with Rolf Kailuweit)
- Academic self-administration
- since October 2025 — Full member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, HHU Düsseldorf
- since October 2025 — Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of philGRAD, the Graduate Academy of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, HHU Düsseldorf
- since October 2025 — Deputy member of the Study Commission and the Faculty Commission for the Promotion of Early Career Researchers, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, HHU Düsseldorf
- since October 2023 — Member of the department board, Department of Linguistics, HHU Düsseldorf
- February – June 2024 — Member of the selection committee for a full professorship in Romance linguistics
- October 2023 – September 2025 — Deputy member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, HHU Düsseldorf
- FörderLink e.V. (Friends’ association of the Department of General Linguistics at HHU Düsseldorf)
- since January 2024 — Zweiter Vorsitzender (vice president)
Qualifications
- Certification Program Professionelle Lehrkompetenz für die Hochschule NRW
- Workshops (~150h) on principles of didactics, course planning, communication skills, counseling, feedback strategies, oral examinations, group dynamics, stimulating discussions
- coursework completed; final paper currently in progress, completion planned for summer 2026
- Public Engagement Training Portfolio @ Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science
- Workshops & master classes on principles, design and evaluation of public engagement formats
- October 2024 – June 2025
Employment
- since 2022 — Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 2019-2022 — Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of Romance Linguistics (Romanistik II), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 2019-2020 — Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 2018-2019 — Research Assistant (WHB), Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 2017-2018 — Student Assistant (SHK), Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 2015-2018 — Tutor for dyslexia compensation in language education, Kapito Lernpraxis, Duisburg
Teaching
– see Teaching page –
Funding
- Community-Oriented Teaching grant 2024, awarded by Citizens’ University unit of HHU Düsseldorf, funding for a citizen science project involving urban fieldwork on Wolof (as principal applicant; co-applicant: Kilu von Prince; € 20,000)
- Community-Oriented Teaching grant 2022, awarded by Citizens’ University unit of HHU Düsseldorf, funding for a citizen science project on urban linguistic fieldwork (as principal applicant; co-applicants: Ana Krajinović, Isabella Greisinger; € 24,830.92)
- “Ad hoc-Fördertopf Bürgeruniversität” 02/2022 of HHU Düsseldorf, initial funding for a project on urban linguistic fieldwork (co-applicants: Ana Krajinović, Isabella Greisinger, Jasmin Pfeifer, Cat Butz, Juliana Neves-Müller, and Kilu von Prince; € 1,000)
- E-Learning Fund 2021-II of HHU Düsseldorf (“eLearning-Förderfonds”), funding for student assistants, 2 projects (€ 12,460)
- E-Learning Fund 2021-I of HHU Düsseldorf (“eLearning-Förderfonds”), funding for student assistants and software (€ 8,800)
- E-Learning Fund 2020-II of HHU Düsseldorf (“eLearning-Förderfonds”), funding for student assistants (€ 7,800)
Outreach
– see Outreach page –
Memberships
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
- Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
- Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)
- FörderLink e.V.
- Association for Diversity in Linguistics e.V.