Professor Sharifian completed a multiple award winning (The University Research Medal, Dean's Prize for Outstanding Research, and Western Australian Institute of Education Early Career Medal) at Edith Cowan University in 2003. He was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship by the Australian Research Council in 2003, based at the University of Western Australia. He was appointed a Lecturer at Monash University in 2005. In 2008 he was appointed the Director of Language and Society Centre at Monash. In 2011, after only 6 years of scholarly service at Monash, he was appointed Professor. He was appointed as the Chair in Cultural Linguistics, the first one in the world, in 2015. In 2014 he was elected as the President of Applied Linguistics Association of Australia. He has also been awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
Professor Sharifian is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Language and Culture (IJoLC) [John Benjamins], the Series Editor of Cultural Linguistics book series [Springer], and the Series Editor of Routledge Advances in Teaching English as an International Language. He has widely published in many international journals and edited books.
