Birgit Hellwig is a German linguist specializing in African and Papuan languages.
Between 2003 and 2005 she carried out postdoctoral research at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and from 2006 to 2008 at La Trobe University in Melbourne; during this time she collaborated with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Khartoum.
[1] In 2008, Hellwig took up a junior professorship in language documentation at the University of Erfurt.
[3] A major focus of her research has been creating corpora for all of the above languages, based on original fieldwork.
[7] In 2020, Hellwig was elected ordinary member of the Academia Europaea.