Reyhan Furman

In my role as the Lab Manager at the Multimodal Language Department, I work with and support MLD members in diverse aspects of their research. This involves different activities and tasks such as project coordination, assistance with ethics compliance, data management, team onboarding, and supervision of student and research assistants. 

During my undergraduate studies, I completed a double major with Honours in Psychology, and Guidance and Psychological Counseling at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. I then received my MA in Psychology from the same university. I obtained my PhD in Linguistics supervised by Prof. Aslı Özyürek at the MPI, and Radboud University. In my PhD, I examined how Turkish-speaking children and adults represent caused motion events in their speech and gestures. Afterwards, I worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Communication Before Language Group (headed by Dr. Ulf Liszkowski) of the MPI. Following that, I was a postdoctoral fellow in Psychology, working with Profs. Elena Nicoladis and Paula Marentette at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Between 2015 and 2026, I held a permanent position as Senior Lecturer in Developmental Cognition at the University of Lancashire in the UK and was also the Director of the MSc Psychology of Child Development Master's programme. 

I currently serve as an Associate Editor for Gesture in addition to my duties at the MPI.