Profile

I am a neurobiologist of language trained as a linguist at the universities of Hanover, DE, Groningen, NL, Joensuu, FI, and Potsdam DE. I am interested in the electrophysiology of language. Specifically, I investigate the role of periodic activity—so-called neural oscillations. I employ neuroimaging (e.g., electro– and magnetoencephalography, functional and structural MRI) on a range of populations (e.g., developmental, healthy, aging, and clinical).

Current Positions

*Interim Appointment for a professorship of linguistics, JGU Mainz
*Group leader, research group "Language Cycles", MPI CBS, Leipzig
*Researcher, Clinic for Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology, UK Münster
*Associate Editor of The Journal of Neuroscience

Current Third-Party-Funded Projects

*Language in Balance: an Imprint of Brain Electrophysiology?
Consolidator Grant, funded by European Research Council, BE
*Automatisierte Anreicherungstherapie bei Sprachentwicklungsstörungen
Funded by Leopold Klinge Foundation, DE; w. A. Kist & K. Neumann
*Timing Disruptions in Speech and Language Disorders
Funded by German Research Foundation, DE; w. C. Kell
*Hörbücher als familienzentrierte Intervention bei Sprachentwicklungsstörungen
Funded by Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss; DE; w. K. Neumann
*The Predictive Coding Account of Schizophrenia
Funded by German Research Foundation, DE; w. Y. He