He is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, where he worked from 1998 to 2015 and again since 2020.
Between 2015 and 2020, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
[1] Haspelmath is one of the editors of the World Atlas of Language Structures and the Glottolog online database, one of the founders of the open access publisher Language Science Press, and has worked on the Standard Average European sprachbund.
[2] According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 42,000 times and he has an h-index of 86 (As of 2024[update]).
[3] Very active on social media (Facebook), Haspelmath promotes open access publishing in his postings,[4] and raises bigger cross-disciplinary linguistic issues.