Johann-Mattis List (born 16 July 1981 in Kassel, Germany) is a German scientist.
List is currently professor at the University of Passau, Germany, where he leads the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics.
[1] List graduated summa cum laude from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 2013.
[2] Throughout much of his research career, List has worked on projects such as Cross-Linguistic Linked Data (CLLD), Lexibank,[3] and the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP).
[4] He has also co-authored various papers on computational language phylogeny, including on the Sino-Tibetan languages,[5][6] and has introduced the concept of incomplete lineage sorting in historical linguistics.