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Frans Zwarts (born 1949 in den Haag) is the rector magnificus (academic president) of the University of Groningen and a linguist and professor in the Department of Dutch, Frisian, and Lower Saxon with a speciality in semantics. His first degree was in general linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, and his PhD was completed at the University of Groningen in 1986 (with the disseration Categoriale grammatica en algebraïsche semantiek; een onderzoek naar negatie en polariteit in het Nederlands [Categorial grammar and algebraic semantics: An investigation of negation and polarity in Dutch]). He was appointed professor of Dutch linguistics in Groningen in 1987, and was scientific director of the research school (onderzoekschool) Behavioral & Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN) from 1999 until 2001, when he was elected rector magnificus. He is the president of the National Dyslexia Commission and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).