Université de Nantes, LLING, partner 
Orin Percus is professor of linguistics at the University of Nantes and member of the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (UMR 6310). He was previously employed at the Università ‘Vita-Salute’ San Raffaele, Milan. His research has touched on a variety of topics in semantics; he is probably best known for his work on the compositional semantics of constructions associated with intensionality. He co-founded and, for many years, co-directed the electronic journal Snippets, dedicated to technical notes in syntax and semantics; he is currently a Series Editor of the book series Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy.