Asael Benyami is a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics under the supervision of Prof. Eitan Grossman (HUJI) and Prof. Shahar Shirtz (ASU).

He holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in Functional Linguistics (magna cum laude). His M.A. thesis, supervised by Prof. Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Dr. Pegah Faghiri, is titled “Valency Classes and Alternations in Persian”. He was also a member of the Middle Persian Dictionary Project directed by Prof. Shaul Shaked.

His main research interests include the Persian language and other Iranian languages of all historical periods, as well as linguistic typology, valency, and descriptive grammar.