Enoch Aboh has been a professor at the UvA since 2012 and, since 2019, director of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC). In his research he focuses on the learnability of human languages, with special attention to syntax, language creation and language change. In 2023, he was already appointed Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 (during the American War of Independence) and brings together intellectual power from academia, the corporate world and government to address major societal challenges. The Academy selects its members for their exceptional achievements in the fields of science, the arts, economics or governance. Well-known members over the centuries include, among others, Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill and Niels Bohr, and in our own time Stephen Hawking.

Members also include UvA academics such as Robbert Dijkgraaf, Beate Roessler and Karel van der Toorn.