Dr. Lorenzo Maselli

Lorenzo Maselli (°1996) is "Doctor-assistent" at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium, EU), Junior fellow at the Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Tokyo, Japan), and scientific collaborator at Université de Mons - Institut Langage (Mons, Belgium, EU) and Université de Bangui - Institut de Linguistique Appliquée (Bangui, Central African Republic), as well as a former FWO - fundamental research PhD fellow (main institutions: UGent, UMons; partner institutions: ILCAA, ISP Gombe). Lorenzo's main interests lie in the fields of acoustic phonetics, articulation, phonological theory and typology, language documentation, and African linguistics. After obtaining a BA (cum laude) in Italian studies from Università degli Studi di Padova (partner institution: Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori), Lorenzo moved to Pisa to study at Scuola Normale Superiore (taking classes in phonetics and general linguistics). During this time, Lorenzo conducted fieldwork in Ethiopia and completed his education at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at the University of California - Davis. After obtaining his MA (cum laude) in Theoretical and Applied linguistics, Lorenzo spent a year in Paris as an invited researcher at LLACAN, focusing on Jukunoid and Kambaata. Subsequently, Lorenzo worked on the phonetic documentation of Lower-Kasai West-Coastal Bantu varieties. This culminated in the obtention of two doctoral titles, one in African Studies from UGent and the other in Psychology and Education Sciences from UMons. Lorenzo is currently working on the description of labial-velar and implosive consonants in the Bantu, Ubangi, and Central Sudanic languages of Central African Republic. In February 2026, Lorenzo was awarded a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions Global Fellowship for upcoming project "NGBU - Non-explosion and Glottalisation in the Basin of the Ubangi".