Robert Mailhammer is Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts of the University of Western Sydney.

His research interests are language documentation, language change, language contact and language variation.

Robert Mailhammer is a Visiting Fellow at CAS from June to July 2017 upon invitation from Prof. Dr. Ursula Lenker and Prof. Dr. Stephanie Hackert and again from October to December 2022 upon invitation from Stephanie Hackert.