We are very pleased to announce that Vishnupriya Kolipakam and Annemarie Verkerk have joined the Max Planck Research Group Evolutionary Processes in Language and Culture as PhD students.

Vishnu has worked on dating the genetic signal of the Austronesian expansion at Martin Richards' Archaeogenetics Research Group at the University of Leeds, as well as doing human and non-human population genetics at the Center for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science and the Ecology and Evolution lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore.

Annemarie is a linguist, with a BA and MA from the Department of Linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. The topic of her MA thesis was Secondary predication in a typological context: The encoding of resultatives, depictives and manner predications and their placement within a conceptual space.