Academy Members

Žic Fuchs Milena, F.C.A.

Academic titles:

• Doctor of Science
• Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Institutions:

• Full Professor – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Functions in Academy:

• member of the Presidency – Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (01/01/2019 – …)
• chair – Committee for International Cooperation (2012. – 2020.)
• member of the Presidency – Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2015. – 2018.)

Membership in Academy:

• full member – Department of Philological Sciences (05/20/2010 – …)
• associate member – Department of Philological Sciences (05/16/2002 – 05/20/2010)

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Curriculum Vitae

Milena Žic Fuchs was born in 1954 in Zagreb, Croatia. From 1958 to 1969 lived in London, New York, and Sydney. In 1977 graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb having majored in English language and literature, and Ethnology. In 1982 received M.A. in Linguistics (Semantics) and in 1989 Ph.D. in Linguistics (Cognitive Linguistics).

From 1978 teaches various courses in Linguistics in the English Department, and at present holds position of Full Professor.

From 1996 to 1998 was Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. From 2002 to 2011 Chair of Linguistics in the English Department, University of Zagreb, where she teaches Semantics and Cognitive Linguistics as well as seminars in semantics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. From 2001 to 2004 she taught courses in Cognitive Linguistics for Anthropology students at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences as well as courses in Cognitive Science for students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb.

Milena Žic Fuchs teaches Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics and American Linguistics and Pragmatics at doctoral level for PhD students in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Translation Studies, and Croatian Philology in Intercultural Context.

In 1995/96 she taught a course (European Structuralism vs. Cognitive Linguistics) at graduate level at New York State University at Buffalo (SUNY) as Fulbright guest professor.

Milena Žic Fuchs was the first scholar to introduce Cognitive Linguistics into Croatian linguistic circles. Her book entitled Knowledge of Language and Knowledge of the World (1991) was the first book on Cognitive Linguistics written in Croatian, and is one of the most quoted books in Croatian linguistics. In 2007 she published a dictionary of acronyms together with Stjepan Babić (20,000 items). In 2009 she published the book Cognitive Linguistics and Language Structures: the English Present Perfect (2009), for which she received the National Award for Science for 2011, awarded by the Croatian Parliament (see detailed bibliography).

In 2005 Milena Žic Fuchs became a member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation. In 2006 she was elected member of the Core Group, and subsequently in 2009 she became the Chair of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (2009 – 2012). From 2013 to 2015 she chaired the Scientific Review Group for the Humanities of the ESF. She is also a member of numerous Scientific Advisory Boards, as well as other European level bodies. Milena Žic Fuchs has also acted as an expert for the European Commission, with specific focus on research infrastructures, for instance ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures).

From 2008 Milena Žic Fuchs was member of the ERC Advanced Grant Panel SH4 “The Human Mind and Its Complexity” and chaired this Panel from 2014 to 2015.

In 2010 Milena Žic Fuchs was elected Full Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2013 was elected member of Academia Europaea, and from 2014 she is an active member of the HERCULES Group (Higher Education Research and Culture in European Society) within Academia Europaea.

In 2016 she was appointed member of the EC High Level Group on Maximising Impact of EU Research and Innovation Programmes, chaired by Professor Emeritus Pascal Lamy.

In 2018 she was appointed a member of the JRC (Joint Research Centre) High-Level Peer Group of the European Commission, the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, which supports EU policies with independent scientific evidence throughout the whole policy cycle.

In 2019 Milena Žic Fuchs was elected as member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council. From January 1st, 2020 she began her mandate in the Scientific Council. In 2022 she was elected member of the Board of Academia Europaea, as well as Chair of the International Advisory Board of the University of Helsinki. The year 2022 also marks the beginning of her new mandate on the Governing Board of EASSH (European Alliance for the Social Science and Humanities).

In 2023 she was granted the honorary title professor emerita of the University of Zagreb and received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

2023 – honorary title professor emerita, University of Zagreb

2023 – Lifetime Achievement Award, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb

2022 – elected member of the Board of Academia Europaea

2022 – Chair of International Advisory Board of the University of Helsinki

2022 – member of EASSH Governing Board (European Alliance for the Social Science and Humanities), new mandate

2020 – member of the UNA Europa Advisory Board (University Alliance Europa)

2020 –  member of the International Council at the Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa (Chairman: Erhard Busek)

2020 – member of ERC Scientific Council

2020 – member of EASSH Governing Board (European Alliance for the Social Science and Humanities)

2019 – member of the Advisory Board for NET4SOCIETY5

2018 member of the Scientific Committee of the Austrian EU Council Presidency conference on ‘Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda’

2018 member of the Advisory Board for the Flagship Conference Enhancing Long Term Sustainability and Opening Up RIs to Society and Industry, held in Sofia, Bulgaria

2018 – member of the JRC (Joint Research Centre) High-Level Peer Group of the European Commission

2018 – member of International Advisory Board of the University of Helsinki

2017 convenor of the Academia Europaea Conference: “Crossing over to the Future: Interdisciplinarity in Research and Higher Education”, held in Stockholm, May 2017

2016 – 2017 member of the EC High Level Group on Maximising Impact of EU Research and Innovation Programmes

2016 – 2017 member of the EC High Level Group for the Interim Evaluation of H2020 on European Research Infrastructures, including e-Infrastructures

2016 – 2018 member of Science Advisory Board for Research Infrastructure project InRoad

2016 – 2018 member of the ESOF 2018 Steering Committee (Euroscience Open Forum) – Toulouse

2015 – member of Research Advisory Board for Europeana

2015 – member of Expert Board of the Confucius Institute of the University of Zagreb

2014 – 2015 member of Science Advisory Group of ERIH PLUS (NSD, Bergen)

2014 – member of the Governing Board of Zagreb University (vice-president)

2014 – 2016 member of the ESOF 2016 Steering Committee (Euroscience Open Forum) – Manchester

2014 – 2017 member of Science Advisory Board of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki

2014 – 2015 Chair of the ERC Advanced Grant Panel SH4 „The Human Mind and Its Complexity“

2014 – member of HERCULES (Higher Education Research and Culture in European Society) Group, Academia Europaea

2013 elected member of Academia Europaea

2013 – 2015 member of ALLEA Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group, and member of ALLEA Science Advisory Board of SASSH (Survey and Analysis of Basic Research in SSH conducted at the European Academies of Sciences and Humanities)

2013 – 2015 Chair of the Scientific Review Group, ESF

2013 – 2019 member of Science Advisory Board of NET4SOCIETY (Transational Cooperation among National Contact Points for Socioeconomic Sciences and Humanities)

2012 – 2020 Croatian representative on Network Board of HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area)

2012 – 2016 member of Conseil Scientifique de Réseau Francais des Instituts d’Études Avancées (RFIEA)

2012 – 2013 member of EC Expert Group for ESFRI Roadmap (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures)

2012 – 2019 member of Science Advisory Board of CLARIN – ERIC (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium)

2012 – President of International Board of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

2012  member of Organization committee for the conference Syntax of the World’s Languages V

2012 member of Organization Committee for the conference The Embodied Foundations of Human Communicative Skills, Copenhagen

2012 Chair of Programme and Organization Committee for ESF Junior Summit Water: Unite and Divide. Interdisciplinary Approaches for A Sustainable Future

2012  National Award for Science for 2011 (awarded by the Croatian Parliament)

2011 – founding member of EASSH (European Alliance for the Social Science and Humanities) Core Group

2011 – 2014  member of the Spinoza Prize Selection Committee

2011 organized and chaired (together with Ruediger Klein) the section Innovate the concept – the humanities and social innovation at the conference Challenge Social Innovation, Vienna

2010 – 2019 member of the MERIL (Mapping European Research Infrastructure Landscapes) Steering Committee

2009 Chair of the Committee for the National Latsis Prize

2009 – 2013 Chair of the Standing Commitee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (ESF)

2009 – 2013 Chair of the Council for the Humanities of the National Science Council in Croatia

2009 – 2012 member of Network Board of HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area)

2008 – 2013  Member of ERC Panel “The Human Mind and Its Complexity” for Advanced Grants

2005 – 2008  Member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation

2004 – 2009  Member of the Council for the Humanities of the National Science Council in Croatia

2003 – 2011 Member of the Committee for National Science Awards in the Humanities in Croatia

2003 – 2009 Member of the Council for Scholarly Publications and Journals of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports

2002 – 2011 Chair of Linguistics at the English Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

2000 – 2008 Chair of Organizing Committees of four international Cognitive Linguistics conferences held in Dubrovnik

1999 – 2000   Minister of Science and Technology

1998 – 2002   Member of the National Scientific Council of Croatia

1996 – 1998   Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

1995 – 1996  Visiting professor at SUNY, Buffallo; taught course European Structuralism vs. Cognitive Linguistics at graduate level for PhD candidates both in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

1994 – 1999   Member of the Council for Linguistics and the Croatian Language, Ministry of Science and Technology

1994 – 1995   Chair of the Council for Scholarly Publications and Journals, Ministry of Science and Technology

1991 – 1998   Editor-in-Chief of the linguistics journal Suvremena lingvistika

1984 – 1985   Doctoral Fulbright scholarship, Linguistics Department, UCLA

Scientific Research Projects

• 2007 – 2013  Principal researcher: Theoretical cognitive linguistic research of Croatian and other languages (Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, project no. 130-1301049-1047)
• 2005 – 2007  Principal researcher: Cognitive linguistic research of Croatian and English (Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, project no. 0130547)
• 1996 – 2001  Principal researcher: Semantic fields and syntax (Ministry of Science and Technology, project no. 130719)
• 1991 – 1996 Principal researcher: Principles of lexical organization at the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Ministry of Science and Technology project no. 6-03-217)

Scholarly Journals 

• 2019 – Member of the Advisory Board of Lingue et Linguaggio
• 2012 – 2019  Member of the Editorial Board of Lingue e Linguaggio
• 2005 – 2018 Member of the Editorial Board of Jezikoslovlje
• 1991 – 1998   Editor-in-Chief of the linguistics journal Suvremena lingvistika
• 1978 – 1988   Member of the Editorial Board and Editorial Assistant of Studia Romanica et Anglistica Zagrabiensia

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Bibliography

Milena Žic Fuchs – Croatian Scientific Bibliography CROSBI