People

Director

Simon E. Fisher

Secretaries

Martina Bernhard
Paulina Grzenia

Senior Investigators

Clyde Francks
Beate St Pourcain

Minerva Fast Track Fellow

Limor Raviv

Research Staff

Else Eising
Maggie Wong
Ellen Verhoef
Sanjeevan Jahagirdar
Fatma Uzbas
Mengyun Wang
Gökberk Alagöz
Yanlin Zhou
Jitse Amelink

PhD Students

Danielle Admiraal
Nicole Ng
Carmen Ramoser (Max Planck School of Cognition)
Abdool Al-Khaledi
Carmen Domínguez Baleón (Max Planck School of Cognition)
Elif Yildiz (Max Planck School of Cognition)

Laboratory Manager

Jasper Bok

Laboratory Technicians

Arianna Vino
Jurgen Heijsen

Research Assistants

Deniz Gülyurt

Student Assistants

Íde Ní Ifearnáin

Trainees

Veronika Bejczy
Mandoh Zeijdner
Alp Uçar

Former Language & Genetics Department Members

Senior Investigator

Dan Dediu

Research Staff

Nicolas Brucato
Katerina Kucera
Sylvia Chen
Guy Karlebach
Sarah Graham
Scott Moisik
Pelagia Derizioti
Tulio Guadalupe
Chin Yang Shapland
Carolien de Kovel
Amanda K. Tilot Komuro
Amaia Carrión Castillo
Cleo Smeets
Xiangzhen Kong
Karthikeyan Devaraju
Marjolein van Donkelaar
Jan Verheijen
Mariska Barendse
Zhiqiang Sha
Sabrina van Heukelum
Dick Schijven
Joery den Hoed
Mubeen Khan
Lukas Galke
Sourena Soheili-Nezhad
Barbara Molz 
Ingrid Szilagyi
Danielle Houwing

PhD students
Joses Ho (graduated 2015; Oxford University)
Alessandro Gialluisi (graduated 2015)
Martin Becker (graduated 2016)
Amaia Carrión Castillo (graduated 2016)
Tulio Guadalupe (graduated 2017)
Tulia Kavaklioglou
Sara Busquets Estruch (graduated 2018)
Rick Janssen (graduated 2018)
Elliot Sollis (graduated 2019)
Ellen Verhoef (graduated 2021)
Merel Postema (graduated 2021)
Kai Wanke
Lot Snijders Blok (graduated 2021) (Language in Interaction consortium)
Fabian Heim (graduated 2022) (Language in Interaction consortium)
Midas Anijs (graduated 2024)
Lewis (Ching Yat) Cheung
Fenja Schlag (graduated 2026)
Lucía De Hoyos (graduated 2026)
Giacomo Bignardi (graduated 2026) (Max Planck School of Cognition)
Chenghui Zhang (guest PhD 2025)

Lab Rotations Max Planck School of Cognition
Pattarawat Chormai 2020
Giacomo Bignardi 2021
Ole Goltermann 2022
Sophie Holtz 2022
Carmen Ramoser 2024
Carmen Aurora Domínguez-Baleón 2025
Elif Yildiz 2025

Other Staff
Danai Dimitropoulou (Laboratory technician)
Martine Hoogman (Project/database manager)
Carly Jaques (Research assistant)
Kim Neijman (Research assistant)
Moritz Negwer
Lara Clauss
Margot Gerritse
Pauline Roost (Laboratory technician)
Grazia Di Pisa (Research assistant)
Janna Schulze (Research assistant)
Ulrike Schnell (Laboratory technician)
Loes van den Heuvel (Research assistant)
Soha Farboud (Research assistant)
Sanne Ruigrok (Student assistant)
Roos Kampen (Research assistant)
Jelle de Boer (Laboratory technician)
Camilla Lalli
Cansel Sert (Student assistant)
Sofia Weidle Scatolin (student assistant)
Ruth Zondag
Lukas Lütje (Research assistant)
Willemijn Claassen (Research assistant)
Yuliia Shevchuk (Research assistant)
Anke Verhulst (Student assistant)
Simone van den Bedem (Student assistant)
Marith Siekman (Student assistant)
Remi van Casteren (Student assistant, LEADS)
Rafael Zampakas (Student assistant, PGHC)
Jean Corbally (Research Assistant)

Trainees
Gulcin Gumus
Sweeny Chauhan
Nadine Stadtler
Mariella Paul
Rocío Acuna Hidalgo (PhD student at Radboud University)
Swathi Mookonda Chinnappa
Midas Anijs (currently PhD student in the Neurogenetics of Vocal Communication group)
Flavia Bianca Cristian
Dario Gajewski
Riewerd Bojoh
Emma Meeussen
Margot Gerritse
Saskia Kuhl
Joery den Hoed
Maaike Vogel
Svenja Idel
Ivo van der Stelt
Fenja Schlag
Kavitha Kannan
Jorge Cañas Martín
Leroy van den Bogert
Celeste Figaroa
Mitchell Olislagers
Ezgi Sengun
Janne Vermeulen
Jeffrey van der Ven
Roos Kampen
Jasmijn Vestjens
Willemijn Claassen
Valerie Rebattu
Minke Dotinga
Anna Overlaet-Michiels
Lukas Lütje
Danielle Admiraal
Mary Bazioni
Tanguy Rubat Du Mérac
Luisa Wolf (LEADS)
Maaike Hoogland
Mikel Lana Alberro
Aroa Elortza Payros
Kayleigh Anske Hiscock
Jemima Helen
Kotryna Motiekaityte (LEADS)
Oxana Grosseck (LEADS)
Anh Dang Thi Thao (LEADS)
Christan Janssen
Paola Moreno Ancalmo
Anh Nguyen
Emma de Heus
Loes Beinema
Catarina Costa da Gloria
Lucas de Jong
Deema Takaleh (Talent+)
Anjoom Thahir Alikkam Veetil (Talent+)
Letizia Vogini
Aikaterini Spantidaki
Magdalena Unterberger
Julia Niehaus
Jill Kessen
Pedro Alonso González
Willem van de Ven