Enoch O. Aboh is a professor of linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, where he investigates the learnability of human language with a special focus on comparative syntax; language creation, and language change. His main publications include The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars (2015), The Morphosyntax of Head-Complement Sequences (2004), as well as several journal papers, book chapters and edited volumes. He has taught the LSA institute MIT/Harvard and the LOT schools (2005, 2010, 2014). As a co-organizer of the African Linguistics School, which he also teaches, he is strongly engaged in working toward a better transfer of knowledge of linguistics to Africa.