Asli Özyürek#
| Membership Number: | 4883 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpi.nl/people/ozyurek-asli |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Full Professor, Center for Language Studies (CLS), Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Sciences, Donders Center for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen
- PI (Principal Investigator) at Center for Language Studies, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen
- Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Director, Multimodal Language and Cognition Lab (http://www.ru.nl/mlc
)
- 2007 - 2010 Associate Professor (UHD), Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen
- 2003 - 2007 Post-doctoral Researcher, 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), USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurocognition
- Multimodal language and communication
- Linguistics, cognition, development
- Psycholinguistics
- Gesture, sign language
Honours and Awards
- 2015 - 2020 NWO VICI Career Grant (Talent Scheme)
- 2010 - 2015 ERC Starting Grant
- 2007 - 2012 NWO VIDI Career Grant (Talent Scheme)
- 2007 - 2012 Dutch Science Foundation ASPASIA award
- 2001 - 2004 Turkish Academy of Sciences, Young Scientist Award (TUBA-GEBIP)
- 1996 John Dewey Lectureship award, University of Chicago
