Martin Weisser is currently a Visiting Full Professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He has held several academic appointments, including Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Foreign Languages at Guangdong University, China, and Adjunct Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is the author of Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis (Wiley Blackwell, 2016) and the developer of several software tools for language analysis.