Robert Mailhammer is a Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney and a Visiting Fellow at The Australian National University, Canberra.
He received his Ph. D. in Language Theory and Applied Linguistics within the International Doctoral Programme in Linguistics LIPP at the University of Munich in 2007 with a dissertation on the Proto-Germanic strong verbs, funded by doctoral grants from the German Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and the University of Munich. As a postdoc at the University of Melbourne in 2007 and at The Australian National University (2009-2010), Robert re-initiated the documentation of Amurdak, a language from Northern Arnhem Land. He has also held posts in German and English Linguistics at the University of Munich and at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, and until 2011 Robert was Assistant Professor at Arizona State University.