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ABOUT THE GROUP LEADERS

Assoc. Prof. Mari Uusküla

Mari Uusküla is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Translation Theory at Tallinn University, Estonia. She holds MA and PhD degrees in Linguistics from the University of Tartu and has also studied at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and at the University of Florence. Her research interests include lexical semantics, semantic typology (especially the field of colour semantics, categorisation, and perception), machine translation and AI literacy; cognitive translator studies and translation processes; and the translation of idiomatic colour language. She has also collaborated on colour- and emotion-related studies with the Institute of Psychology at the University of Lausanne.

She is currently involved in a research project on machine translation literacy among Estonian students, university staff members, and laypeople. She has published papers in a range of journals, including Babel, Open Linguistics, Journal of Cognition and Culture, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, and Color Research and Application.

At Tallinn University, she teaches students in translation and linguistics programmes. Her subjects include psycho- and neurolinguistics, semantics and pragmatics, and language and culture. She has lectured widely across Europe, including at UAM in Madrid; the University of Perugia, Italy; Roskilde University, Denmark; and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.