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CV

Academic Positions

2011-present	Senior Investigator
	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
2010-present	Research Fellow
	Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
2004-2010	Scientific Staff member
	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
2001-2003	Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow
	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
2000-2001	University lecturer
	Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow

University Education

1997-2001	PhD, University of Glasgow
	Psychology
1996-1997	MSc, University of Edinburgh
	Cognitive Science and Natural Language
1992-1996	MA (Hons) First Class, University of Glasgow
	Psychology with Philosophy

Visiting scholar

Aug 2005	Teacher's College, Columbia University, New York
Aug 2002	Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin
Oct-Dec 2001	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Sept 2001	University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
March-Sept 1999	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Nov 1998	University of Provence, France

Fieldwork

2009, 2010, 2011	Jahai (Mon-Khmer), Malaysia; Malay, Malaysia
2004	Punjabi, Pakistan

Awards, Honours and Grants

2012-2017	NWO Vici (1.5 million euros)
2012 (upcoming)	Invited research Fellow at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden
2012 (upcoming)	Invited research Fellow at The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) of Bielefeld University in Germany
2010	Volkswagen Foundation's DOBES symposia funding
	Principle applicant of international workshop "Hunter-gatherers and semantic categories: an interdisciplinary workshop on theory, method and documentation"
2002-2004	Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
	Held at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Professional Activities and Affiliations

Meetings organised

2012	Co-organiser of workshop Exploring Indo-European semantic diversity: the Germanic languages at Fribourg, Switzerland
2012	Co-organiser of conference Psycholinguistics in Flanders at Berg en Dal, The Netherlands
2010	Co-organiser of workshop Hunter-gatherers and semantic categories: an interdisciplinary workshop on theory, method and documentation at Neuwied, Germany
2009	Co-organiser of symposium The senses in language and culture at the American Anthroplogical Association's 108^th Annual Meeting
2009	Co-organiser of symposium The interface between language and thought: Current directions at the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2009	Co-organiser of Cross-modality and sound-symbolism workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2009	Organiser of Time in space workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2009	Co-organiser of Universals of sound-symbolism workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2008	Co-organiser of Human Locomotion Across Languages workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2006	Co-organiser of Reciprocals Across Languages workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2005	Co-organiser of Almen meeting (2-day retreat to discuss future research directions for the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
2004-2006	Organiser of Lunch time talk series at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2004	Co-organiser of Nijmegen Lectures (invited speaker Susan Goldin-Meadow)
2000-2001	Chair and co-organiser of Scottish Psycholinguistics Meeting – which consists of three annual meetings in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee
1999-2001	Organiser of departmental Language Workshop at Glasgow University

Editorial boards

2011-present	Associate Editor for Emotion Review
2010-present	Editorial board of Discourse Processes
2010-present	Associate editor of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology
2010-present	Review editor of Frontiers in Cognitive Science
2010-present	Advisory board for publishing program in linguistics for de Gruyter and Verista publishing houses
2002-present	Associate editor for the International Psychology Section, The Psychologist (Monthly Bulletin of the British Psychological Society)

Editorial roles

2010-2012	Guest editor for research topic of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology (volume “Thinking of time in terms of space”)
2010-2011	Guest editor for special issue of The Senses & Society (volume “The senses in language and culture”)
2004-2009	Editor of Language and Cognition group’s Field Manual (methods and design for data collection)
2005-2007	Guest editor for special issue of Cognitive Linguistics (volume “Cutting and breaking”)
2004-2006	Guest editor for special issue of Language Sciences (volume “Parts of the body: cross-linguistic categorization”)

Ad-hoc Reviewing

Journals	Brain and Language; Chemosensory Perception; Cognition; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science; Cognitive Science Society; Current Anthropology; Discourse Processes; Ethos; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology; International Journal of Mind, Brain and Cognition; Journal of Child Language; Journal of Logic, Language and Information; Linguistics; Journal of Memory and Language; Language and Cognitive Processes; Language Sciences; Lingua; Memory & Cognition; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Psychological Science; Social Psychology Quarterly; The Mental Lexicon; The Psychological Record; Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Publishers	Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press, Wiley-Blackwell; MIT Press
Funding agencies	National Science Foundation; Agence Nationale De La Recherche, France; Research Council of K.U. Leuven, Belgium

Last checked 2012-05-10

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