Asli Ozyurek

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I am a full Professor at the Center For Language Studies (Faculty of Arts) and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior (Faculty of Social Sciences) at Radboud University.
I am also the Director of the Multimodal Language and Cognition lab- members of which are distributed over Max Planck Institute, Center for Language Studies and Donders Institute for Cognition at Radboud University.

https://www.mpi.nl/department/multimodal-language-and-cognition/17
http://www.ru.nl/mlc/

My research in general investigates the relations between cognition, language, communication and development.

I am interested in embodied and situated approaches to language and in particular to what extent our knowledge and use of bodily actions interact with language, its processing and learning.

I investigate this question in two domains of human communicative behavior in which body and language are closely related:

A) gestures that speakers use along with speech
B) sign languages (established or emerging)

I have received NWO- VIDI grant (5-year), ASPASIA Award and ERC Starting Grant  (5-year) and hosted three Marie-Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships 

I am also an elected (2019) member of Academia Europea

Currently I am the PI of a 5-year  NWO-VICI Grant (see NWO news item) for a research proposal entitled "Giving cognition a hand: Linking spatial cognition to linguistic expression in native and late learners of sign language and bimodal bilinguals" (until 2021).

Other current roles:

Co-PI and a Scientific Board Member of NWO funded Language in Interaction Consortium (until 2023)

Scientific Board member of the Donders Institute and the Speaker of Language and Communication theme (from 2018 onwards)

Programme Committee Member of IMPRS Graduate School (from 2019 onwards)

With Dr. Judith Holler I coordinate the Nijmegen Gesture Center

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