Tomas Riad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tomas Riad

linguist

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1959

Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden

Profession: writer, musician, violinist, academic, linguist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Tomas Staffan Riad (born 15 November 1959 in Uppsala) is a Swedish linguist, specialised in Swedish phonology and prosody.
He received his Ph.D.
from Stockholm University in 1992 and is professor at the Department of Scandinavian languages there.
Riad is also a violinist, trained at the Royal College of Music in London and has worked as a full-time musician.
He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy on 29 September 2011 (taking his seat on 20 December).