Prof Victor Junnan Pan is Professor in theoretical linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was Head of Graduate Division of Linguistics at CUHK (2019-2024) and has been the Chairperson of the department since 2023. He received his Maîtrise, Research Master and PhD from Université de Nantes in France and Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from Université Paris Cité (U. Paris 7) in France. Prior to joining CUHK, he was an Associate Professor with tenure in theoretical linguistics at the Université Paris Cité and a full-time researcher affiliated at Laboratoire de Linguisitique Formelle (LLF), and the Chairperson of the Department of Chinese at U. Paris Cité. In 2017, Prof. Pan was elected as a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (法蘭西大學學院青年院士) and was elected as a full-time scientific researcher among university teachers to work in Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) under the scheme Acceuil en Délégation des Enseignants-Chercheurs au CNRS from 2017 to 2018 and he received Doctoral Supervision and Research Award from the French government. Prof. Pan was appointed by the Ministère chargé de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche de la France(French Ministry of Higher Education and Research) as scientific committee member of Conseil national des universités (CNU) mainly in charge of the Qualification of new professorate faculty members at the national level for the period 2011–2018. He also served as an executive committee member of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) and of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL). Prof. Pan has published journal articles, book chapters and five research monographs both in French and in English including Resumptivity in Mandarin Chinese: A Minimalist Account (Mouton De Gruyter, 2016) and Architecture of The Periphery in Chinese: Cartography and Minimalism (Routledge, 2019). Prof. Pan also serves as anonymous reviewer for numerous prestigious international journals including Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, The Linguistic Review, Linguistics and Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

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