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Education and Employment

• 2010 - present: Full Professor, Center for Language Studies (CLS), Radboud University Nijmegen and from 1 April 2016 also at Faculty of Social Sciences, Donders Center for Cognition
  PI Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) VICI Grant (2015-2020)
  PI at Center for Language Studies, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior and MPI for Psycholinguistics
  Director, Multimodal Language and Cognition Lab

• 2007-2010: Associate Professor (UHD), Department of Linguistics, Center for Language Studies (CLS), Radboud University Nijmegen

• 2003-2007: Post-doctoral Researcher, FC Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen

• 2000-2003: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

• 2000: Joint Ph.D. in Psychology (Developmental) and Linguistics, The University of Chicago (with Honors)

• 1997-2000: Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

• 1994: M.A. in Psychology (Developmental), The University of Chicago

• 1991: B.A. in Psychology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (with Honors)

Other Academic Affiliations

• Research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• Research Fellow Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen

Academic Standing (end of 2017)

• Web of Science: Times cited: 2000+ h-index=20
• Google Scholar: 4048 h-index =24

Grants & Awards

• Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) VICI Grant (PI)
  Title: Giving cognition a hand: Linking spatial cognition to linguistic expression in native and late learners of sign language and bimodal bilinguals
  Time period: 2015-2020 (1,5 million €)
  
• Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) Gravitation Grant (co-PI)
  Title: Language in Interaction
  Time period: 2013-2023 (27,6 million €)
  In collaboration with: All Principal Investigators of the Gravitation project, Scientifc Board Member
• Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF (PI)
  Title: Demonstration Design
  Training fellow: Dr. Emanuela Campisi
  Time period: 2012-2014
• Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) Internationalisering in Geesteswetenschapen: Internationalization in Humanities (co-PI) Grant for organizing international workshops
  Title: Socio-cognitive mechanisms of symbolic communication
  Time period: 2012-2014 (36,000 €)
  In collaboration with: Dr. Paul Vogt (Tilbug University)

• Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF (co-host)
  Title: From action to communication: the role of intention and social cues in the perception of gestures as communicative acts
  Training fellow: Dr. Judith Holler (hosting in collaboration with prof. Hagoort)
  Time period: 2010-2013
• European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (PI)
  Title: Language in our hands: The role of modality in shaping development of spatial language in deaf and hearing children
  Time period: 2010-2015 (1,2 million €)

• Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) VIDI Grant (PI)
  Title: Role of modality in shaping sign language structure
  Time period: 2007-2012 (600,000 €)

• Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) ASPASIA award
  Time period: 2007-2012 (100,000 €)

• Turkish Academy of Sciences, Young Scientist Award (TUBA-GEBIP)
  Time period: 2001-2004 (30,000 $)

• US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Major Grant (co-PI)
  Title: The development of spontaneous gesture systems in deaf children (continuation)
  Time period: 2006-2011 (250,000 $)
  In collaboration with: Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow

• US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Major Grant (co-PI)
  Title: The development of spontaneous gesture systems in deaf children in four cultures
  Time period: 2000-2005 (250,000 $)
  In collaboration with: Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow

• US National Science Foundation (NSF). Major Grant (co-PI)
  Linguistics Program and Child Learning and Development Program
  Title: A crosslinguistic developmental study of spatial thinking and speaking: What do spontaneous gestures reveal?
  Time period: 2000-2003 (35,000 $)
  In collaboration with: Dr. Shanley Allen & dr. Sotaro Kita

• Fellowship for the promotion of scientific cooperation
  Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
  Time period: summer 2001

• Visiting Fellowship
  Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
  Time period: 1997-2000

• Irving Harris Developmental Psychology Grant
  University of Chicago, United States of America
  Time period: 1996-1997

• John Dewey Lectureship award
  University of Chicago, United States of America
  Time period: 1996

Reviewing

• International Journals: Autism Research; Brain and Language; Brain Research; Cerebral Cortex; Cognition; Cognitive Linguistics; Developmental Psychology; Child Development; Gesture; Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics; Journal of Bilingualism and Cognition; Journal of Child Language; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Cognitive Science; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning and Memory; Journal of Language and Development; Journal of Memory and Language; Language and Cognitive Processes Linguistics; Neuropsychologia; Psychological Science; Cross-Cultural Psychology; Language; International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders; Topics In Cognitive Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

• Funding Agencies: National Science Foundation (NSF) (Perception, Action, Cognition Program and Linguistics), USA; Endangered Languages Documentation Program, SOAS, UK; ESRC, UK; British Academy Small Grants; NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) Mozaik, Rubicon, and VIDI programs; European Research Council (ERC); Trust Foundation, UK; NIAS, NL

• Conferences: Evolution of Language Conference; Cognitive Science Society Conference; International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) Conference; International Child Language Conference (IASCL); Boston University Language Development Conference (BUCLD); Experimental Pragmatics; International Conference for Turkish Linguistics; GESPIN

Academic and public Service

• Chair Jury for best Msc Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience in Netherlands (2016)
• Jury Member NWO Humanities PhD Selection Committee (2015)
• President International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS) (2014- present)
• Advisor for Dutch-Kentalis deaf education implementation in a preschool for the deaf in Istanbul (Child Education Center- Cocuk Egitim Dernegi-CED)  (2013- present)
• Chair of Scientific Board for bimodal bilingual education implementation in a preschool for the deaf in Istanbul (CEV: -Child Education Center- Cocuk Egitim Dernegi)  (2015- present)
• Advisory Board Member: DCAL (Deafness, Cognition and Language) Center, University College London (2010-2015)
• Coordinator of Sign and Gesture Topic Meetings, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior (2010-2013)
• Jury member LOT Dissertation Prize
• Scientific Board Member, NWO Gravitation Consortium Grant, Language in Interaction
• Coordinator of Nijmegen Gesture Center (with dr. Judith Holler) (2005-present)

• Editorial Board: Journal Gesture

• Review Editorial Board: Frontiers in Language Sciences
• Editorial Board: WIRES in Cognitive Science
• Editorial Board: Language, Interaction, Acquisition (LIA)

• Member of Advice Commission, NWO Dutch Science Foundation MOZAIK program

• General Secretary of International Society of Gesture Studies (2000-2007)