Ľudmila Lacková Bennett, Mgr, PhD, and PhD is a communication theorist, linguist, and semiotician. She holds two PhDs, receiving both in 2018, the first from Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, and the second from the University of Bologna, Italy in the form of cotutelle (double degree). She received her Mgr from Linguistics and Communication Theory in 2015. Lacková Bennett spent a postdoc research period at the Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, United States in 2021. 

She is the Chair for Linguistics and Communication at Palacký University in Olomouc and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages and Literature, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Her first monograph is Language of Life: A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms (Peter Lang, 2024), which focuses on the application of Peirce’s semeiotic within research across biology and linguistics. Her current research involves cognitive semiotics and biosemiotics in relation to digital communication technology, the biosemiotic approach to artificial intelligence, medical semiotics, and commercial semiotics.

Dr. Lacková Bennett is an executive member of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) and the director of the International Semiotics Institute (ISI). She is editor-in-chief of the journal Linguistic Frontiers with De Gruyter- Sciendo, associate editor of the journal Biosemiotics with Springer Nature, and associate editor of the book series Numanities: Arts and Humanities in Progress with Springer Nature.