Tanmoy Bhattacharya (PhD, University College London, 1999 as a Commonwealth Scholar) joined the Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi in 2001 as an Associate Professor after a postdoctoral stint as a research scientist in the Cognitive Science Group of the University of Leipzig, Germany. 

He has been a Professor of Linguistics since 2009 and is currently the Head of the Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi. He specilises in Syntax and also guides research on Sign Language, Psycholinguistics, Parsing, Conversational Analysis, Gender and Disability. He is also the founder secretary of FOSSSIL, which a runs a very successful international Summer School in Syntax & Semantics. Outside of Linguistics, he works in Disability Studies and has been running a reading group called Critical Disability Studies in India (CDSI) since 2012, and is one of the editors of the Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies. 

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