Dr Maria Paola Bissiri
Maria Paola started working with S2S in May 2010. She is an ER based in Prague, working on Project 6.
Her research interests are phonetics and second language acquisition.
People
Dan Brenner
Dan worked on the transcription of English speech corpora, reduced speech, and automated phonetic alignment at MPI in the Netherlands. He has now returned to the US to continue his PhD studies.
Website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~dbrenner
Email: Dan.Brenner@mpi.nl
Francesco Cangemi
ESR on Project 8 at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France; working with Mariapaola D’Imperio
Email: francesco.cangemi@lpl-aix.fr
Dr Meghan Clayards
Meghan worked with us as an ER on Project 4 at the University of York, UK, from July 2008 - Aug 2009.
In September 2009 she took up a post doctoral fellowship with the Center for Research on Language Mind and Brain in Montreal, Canada. She was working with Dr. Linda Polka and Dr. Susan Rvachew in the School of Communication Sciences Disorders at McGill University, as well as Dr. Kristine Onishi in the Psychology Department at McGill University. Her research is on adult and child speech perception, particularily with early French-English bilinguals.
In September 2010 she was appointed as Assistant Professor at McGill university. This post is split 50:50 between Linguistics and the School of Communication Sciences Disorders.
Email: meghan.clayards@mcgill.ca
Website: www.mcgill.ca/scsd/people/faculty/meghanclayards/
Dr Sébastien Demange
Sebastien worked for just over 18 months as an ER on Project 9 at the Dept of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, with Dirk Van Compernolle. He is now working as a teaching assistant (ATER) at Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), school of engineering ENSEM
Email: seb_demange@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.loria.fr/~demangs/
Jan Gorisch
ESR on Project 5 at the University of Sheffield, UK; working with Guy Brown, Jon Barker and Bill Wells
Email: J.Gorisch@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Website: http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/J.Gorisch/
Dr Michele Gubian
ER on Project 11 at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands; working with Louis ten Bosch and Helmer Strik
Email: m.gubian@let.ru.nl
Website containing information and tutorials about Michele’s work on Functional Data Analysis.
Michele’s website: http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/gubian.php
Dr Annett Jorschick
Annett worked with us as an ER on Project 1 at the Institute of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague, from Oct 2007 - July 2009.
She is now working at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, collecting high quality audio-visual spontaneous speech corpora in German.
Email: annett.jorschick@uni-bielefeld.de
Website: http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/PersonDetail.jsp?personId=15184996
Ahsanul Kabir
ESR on Project 5 at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Working with Mircea Giurgiu. Due to start Autumn 2008.
Email: kabirahsanul@hotmail.com
Bogdan Ludusan
ESR on Project 7 at the Dept of Informatics, University "Frederick II" of Naples, Italy; working with Francesco Cutugno, Jon Barker and Louis ten Bosch
Email: ludusan@na.infn.it
Prof Dr Oliver Niebuhr
Oliver worked with us as an ER on Project 4, at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, from Sept 2007 - April 2009.
He is now the Junior Professor of Spoken Language Analysis at the University of Kiel, Germany.
Email: niebuhr AT linguistik.uni-kiel.de
Website: www.linguistik.uni-kiel.de/Niebuhr_index.html
Anton Öttl
Anton worked on the transcription of Norwegian speech corpora at MPI, the Netherlands.
He has now moved to Norway to begin a PhD, also within an RTN.
Email: Anton.Oettl@mpi.nl
Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti
ESR on Project 10 at the University of Cambridge, UK; working with Dennis Norris, Richard Ogden and Sarah Hawkins
Email: map55@cam.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.resegone.com/mapb
Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Automatic Speech Recognition, Prosody
Olesya Rauch
ESR on Project 3 at the University of Bristol, UK; working with Sven Mattys
Email: panzyga@yahoo.de
Research interests: articulatory phonetics, speech perception and recognition, intonation, language acquisition, foreign language production and perception.
Joanna Sankowska
ESR on Project 6 at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain; working with María Luisa García Lecumberri and Martin Cooke
Email: j.sankowska@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.laslab.org/joanna
Jessamyn Schertz
Jessamyn is an ESR working on Project 1, carrying out the transcription of English speech corpora at MPI, the Netherlands.
Email: jschertz@email.arizona.edu
Barbara Schuppler
ESR on Project 2 at the Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands; working with Lou Boves, Mirjam Ernestus and Odette Scharenborg
Email: babsi310@hotmail.com
Website: http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/schuppler.php
Dr Dino Seppi
ER on Project 9 at the Dept of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; working with Dirk Van Compernolle.
Email: dino.esat@gmail.com
Website: http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/psi/spraak/staff/?name=dseppi
Rein Ove Sikveland
ESR on Project 1 at the University of York, UK; working with John Local and Sarah Howard
Email: ros500@york.ac.uk
Helena Spilková
ESR on Project 1 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; working with Wim van Dommelen and Jacques Koreman
Email: hele.spilkova@email.cz
Website: http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/helena.spilkova
Kobie van Krieken
Kobie is an ESR working on Dutch data as part of Project 1.
Her research interests are psycholinguistics and persuasive communication.
Pavel Vondřička
Pavel worked for 3 months on the transcription of Czech speech corpora. He was based at Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
He is now spending 10 months in Norway with a Young Guest and Doctoral Researchers’ Annual Scholarships for Investigation and Learning in Norway.
Meg Zellers
ESR on Project 8 at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK; working with Brechtje Post
Email: mkz21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mkz21/
Magdalena Ziková
Magdalena (Magda) Zikova worked in Trondheim for 4 months on Project 1. She was transcribing speech corpora in Czech.
Her main research interests are phonetic typology and general linguistics.
Website: http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/people/magdalena-zikova/
