Prof. Dr. Uli Sauerland is Vice Director of the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), heads the Research Area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics' and the following programs and projects:

• DFG project Limits and Biases in Machine and Human Language and its Learning (2026 - 2029)
• LMBayes - Linguistic Meaning and Bayesian Modelling, funded by the Leibniz Competition
• ERC project Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind; Generator Group
• DFG ANR project Boolean Connectives: Probing the Interplay Between Language and Logic
• DFG project B06 Register in the cross-linguistic diachrony of logical particles within the scope of SFB 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
• DFG project A05 Modeling meaning-driven register variation within the framework of the CRC 1412 Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation

He has a honorary adjunct professorship at the University of Potsdam since 2018.

The central question of Uli Sauerland's research is how people give meaning to sentences. He integrates results from language acquisition, field research and other sources to develop mathematically explicit models of this human ability. His expertise has helped to improve the diagnosis of speech disorders and the comprehensibility of medical guidelines.