Peter Kosta is a professor and chair of Slavic linguistics at the Department of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Potsdam. His major fields of research and teaching are biolinguistics, generative syntax and formal semantics, theory of language, language universals, language typology and comparative syntax. He is a co-editor or on the board of various international Slavic and linguistic journals and series (Zeitschrift für Slawistik, Specimina philologiae Slavicae, Potsdam Linguistic Investigations, Potsdamer Beiträge zur Sorabistik) and co-editor of HSK Slavic languages: An International Handbook of their Structure, Their History and Their Investigations.