Héctor Hernández Arocha

Héctor Hernández Arocha obtained his PhD in Lingiustics from the University of Leipzig (Germany) in 2013. After a replacement of a professorship in Romance Linguistics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) in 2014-15, he was awarded a research position at the Cátedra de Altos Estudios del Español (2015) of the University of Salamanca (Spain). From 2016 to 2018 he held a post-doc position at the Lehrstuhl für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft of the University of Erfurt (Germany). He lectured as an invited Professor at the Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere of the University of Verona (Italy, 2018) and made research visits at the Linguistics Department of the Max-Planck Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie (Germany, 2015) and at the Center for Language, Cognition and Computation of the University of Edinburgh (UK, 2017). He was Assistant Professor at the Universidad Europea de Canarias (2019-2020) and Head of the Department of English and German Philology (2024-2026) at the University of La Laguna. At present, he is Associate Professor in the Section of German Philology at the University of La Laguna. His research interests are Formal Semantics, Word families in diachronic and synchronic Morphology, Language Acquisition, and Syntax-Semantics Interface.