Peter Sandrini

Peter Sandrini (born 20 February 1961) is an Italian-born translation theorist and terminologist. He is currently researcher at the University of Innsbruck at the department of translation studies.
Early life and career.
Peter Sandrini was born on 20 February 1961 in Bozen, Italy. In 1988 Sandrini graduated from the University of Innsbruck in Translation studies. He completed his PhD with a dissertation on legal terminology "Terminologiearbeit im Recht: Deskriptiver begriffsorientierter Ansatz vom Standpunkt des Übersetzers" in 1996.
Since 1992 he works as a senior researcher at the University of Innsbruck. In 1991 he was one of the founders of the professional translators association in South Tyrol "Landesverband der Übersetzer (LDÜ) – L’Unione Provinciale dei Traduttori (UPT)" where he served as executive director until 1994.
From 1999 to 2001 Sandrini participated in an EU-funded research project in collaboration with the European Academy of Bozen on legal and administrative terminology: "Interreg II Programm der EU: Sondermaßnahme zur Überwindung der Probleme, die aufgrund der verschiedenen Sprachen, Verwaltungsverfahren und Rechtssysteme dies- und jenseits der Grenze entstehen".
From 2007 to 2009 he contributed to the EU Tempus Project CD_JEP-40090-2005 "Foreign Languages in the Field of Law", when a new Centre for Foreign Languages at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb was launched.
In 2007 Sandrini launched the computer-aided translation project "tuxtrans", a Linux distribution with a collection of free translation tools.
Works.
Monographs
Edited Volumes (selection)
Papers (selection)