Nick Ellis

Nick C. Ellis is a Welsh psycholinguist, professor of psychology, and a research scientist at the English Language Institute of the University of Michigan. As a researcher, Ellis' focus is on applied linguistics with interest in second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, emergentism, complex dynamic systems approaches to language, reading and spelling acquisition in different languages, computational modeling and cognitive linguistics.

Biography
Ellis received his PhD degree in psychology at the University College of North Wales in 1978 and his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at the University of Oxford in 1974.

Between 1976 and 1991 Ellis was a part-time tutor at the Open University, while also working as a lecturer in psychology at the University College of North Wales from 1978 to 1990. In 1990 he worked as a senior lecturer in psychology until 1994. In 1992 he was a visiting professor at the Temple University of Japan. Ellis worked as a reader in psychology at the University College of North Wales from 1994 to 1998, and a professor of psychology at the University of Wales Bangor from 1998 to 2004.

In 2003, Ellis became a visiting professor of applied language studies and linguistics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Since 2004, he has been a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Research Scientist English Language Institute at the University of Michigan. Since 2004, he has been an honorary research fellow at the School of Psychology University of Wales Bangor. He has been an associate faculty at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan since 2008, and a professor of linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor since 2009. In 2011, he was a visiting researcher at the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Bangor University. From May to June in 2011, he was the external senior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and in July in 2012, he became an Ian Gordon Fellow of the LALS, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. In 2014, he received a distinguished visiting lecturer title of the Temple University Japan and in 2016, he became an international chair at Labex à Paris: Empirical Foundations of Linguistics.

Research
Ellis conducts research on several topics relating to second language acquisition including the connection between explicit and implicit learning, reading, vocabulary and phraseology, applications of psychological theory in language testing and instruction, and the role of the brain.

He was the editor at the journal Language Learning between 1998 and 2002 and since 2006 he has been a general editor of this journal.