Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (from 2008)
Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (from 2006)
Member of the International Committee of the / Mitglied im Internationalen Komitee des Congressus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum (from 1995).
Vice-President of the Board of Women’s and Gender Studies of the Historical-Cultural and Philological-Cultural faculties of the University of Vienna.
Member of the editorial board of
- Virittäjä (1991–2000, 2009–2014)
- Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen (2000–; Redaktionssekretärin 1990–2000)
- WEB-FU
- Keel ja Kirjandus
- Lähivõrdlusi. Lähivertailuja
- ESUKA / JEFUL (Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri / Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric linguistics)
- Folia Linguistica Historica
- SUST/MSFOu (Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia / Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne)
- Transactions of the Philological Society (2015–2017)