Elisabeth Stark holds a chair of Romance linguistics at Zurich (UZH), after having been Full Professor for Romance linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin (2004-2008), her habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in 2003 on indefinites in Old Italian and her doctorate at the same university on word order issues in spoken French (1996). Her core interests are the comparative morphosyntax of Romance nominals and micro-variation in French (register variation), both in a synchronic and diachronic perspective and integrating variationist and formal approaches to language. She has published in journals such as Linguistic variation, Journal of Semantics, Linguistics and Probus; she is member of the scientific boards of Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Lingvisticae Investigationes and Langages and of the book series Linguistische Arbeiten at Mouton de Gruyter and Orbus Romanicus at Narr.. Since 2011, she has been the director of two big interdisciplinary research projects (grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation) on multilingual variation in WhatsApp messages and text messages. In 2018-2021, she co-directs an international project (SNSF, DFG) on partitive articles in minor Romance languages (with Cecilia Poletto, Frankfurt/Padua), and from 2020 onwards she will be responsible for a newly approved large research infrastructure for language-related research on a national level (“LiRI”) at UZH. This infrastructure will also provide an important basis for data acquisition, data processing, -storage and -analysis for L&M related projects. She is co-director of the Zurich Center for Linguistic and co-director of the URPP “Language and Space “ at UZH. She was elected as a member of Academia.net in 2012.