Teaching staff

Montserrat Comesaña
Auxiliary Researcher (U. de Minho)
Dr. Comesaña’s research focuses on the functional architecture of the bilingual memory and how it changes throughout the lifespan, and on second language acquisition.

Cristina Flores
Full Professor (U. do Minho)
Prof. Flores’ research focuses on bilingual language development, in particular on heritage language acquisition and language attrition.

M. Carmen Parafita-Couto
University Lecturer (U. Leiden)
Dr. Parafita-Couto studies the impact of bilingualism and language contact on language structure, mostly the syntax of code-switching.

Brechje Van Osch
Postdoctoral fellow (The Artic U. of Norway)
Dr. Van Osch studies bi/multilingualism, in particular heritage language acquisition.

Ana Rita Sá Leite
Postdoc Researcher (U. of Göttingen)
Dr. Sá Leite is devoted to understanding the encoding of syntax during language production and comprehension.

Floor van den Berg
Postdoctoral fellow (U. of Amsterdam)
Dr. van den Berg is interested in the relationship between multilingualism, cognition, and the brain.

Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez
Associate Professor (Benedictine College)
Dr. Stadthagen-Gonzalez’s research focuses on the psychology of language, including bilingualism, language and emotion, word recognition, and categorization of meanings.

Tim Laméris
University lecturer (U. Leiden)
Dr. Laméris investigates how individual linguistic factors and extralinguistic factors jointly shape individual differences in speech processing.

Anne L. Beatty-Martínez
Assistant Professor (UC San Diego)
Dr. Beatty-Martínez’s research agenda capitalizes on variability in language experience to better understand adaptive change in cognition and in behavior.

Henrique Monteagudo
Full Professor (U. Santiago de Compostela)
Dr. Monteagudo’s research has dealt with the social history of the Galician language, sociolinguistics and glotopolitics.