Dr. Lior Laks is a linguist working on morphology and its interface with other components of the grammar: phonology, the lexicon and the syntax. He graduated from Tel-Aviv University, where he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled "Morpho-phonological and morpho-thematic relations in Hebrew and Arabic verb formation", under the supervision of Prof. Outi-Bat-El and Prof. Tal Siloni. He joined the Department of English Literature and Linguistics in Bar-Ilan University in 2011. 

Dr. Laks's main research field is morphology and its interface with other components of the grammar: phonology, the lexicon and the syntax. Dr. Laks examines word formation processes while relating to different types of criteria that play a role is the selection of morphological forms, productivity of word formation and the absence of possible words that conceptually could be formed.

His research also focuses on the issue of diglossia in Arabic and the grammatical differences between Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Arabic (Jordanian and Palestinian), as an issue with a first degree importance in the system of education and in teaching Arabic.