Petar Milin is a Professor at the University of Birmingham, specializing in the Psychology of Language and Language Learning. He leads the ‘Out of Our Minds’ research team, with his research focus on how learning influences human language, its behaviour and usage. His approach integrates experimentation, computational modelling, and advanced statistical analysis. Professor Milin was one of the principal developers of the Naïve Discrimination Learning (NDL) framework and has developed routines to support other packages for the R programming environment. He was a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and serves as a Research Ambassador at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.
He is part of the MEDAL steering committee and together with Dagmar Divjak heads the workpackage for early-career research empowerment. In addition, he is involved in the GoLD MEDAL research project on pro-drop cross-lingustically.
Prof. Dr. Petar Milin
University of Birmingham
Research Group, Out Of Our Minds
Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd edition, 2026)
Consulting Editor for Methodology, Cognitive Linguistics
Department of Modern Languages
Edgbaston, Ashley 103
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom