Friederike Moltmann

Friederike Moltmann is research professor at the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and in recent years visiting researcher at New York University and visiting professor at the University of Padua. Her research focuses on the interface between natural language semantics and philosophy (metaphysics, but also philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and philosophy of mathematics), often in relation to generative syntax. She is considered a pioneer in establishing natural language ontology, the branch of metaphysics whose subject matter is the ontology implicit in natural language.

Friederike Moltmann received a PhD in 1992 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Noam Chomsky as supervisor and taught both linguistics and philosophy at various universities in the US, the UK, France, and Italy. In 2006, she received a Chaire d'Excellence from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique entitled 'Semantic Structure and Ontological Structure'.