Alba Jorquera Jimenez de Aberasturi is a PhD student in Linguistics. Alba is interested in comprehension of syntactic and semantic dependencies, and computational models of predictive coding.

Xiaoyu Yang is a PhD student in Linguistics. Xiaoyu is interested in psychological models of syntax and semantics.

Sebastián Mancha is a PhD student in Linguistics. Sebastián is interested in psycholinguistic and neural models of syntactic representation.

Utku Turk is a PhD student in Linguistics. Utku is interested in psycholinguistic models of syntax and semantics/pragmatics.

London Dixon is a PhD student in Linguistics. London is interested in psycholinguistic and neural models of syntactic representation, and in grammatical representation in the context of language attrition.

Clara Cuonzo was a PhD student in Linguistics. She’s currently working on environmental projects in Italy.

Xinchi Yu was a PhD student in NACS. He’s currently collaborating with Prof. Ernst Poppel (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)

Alex Krauska was a PhD student in Linguistics. She’s now a postdoc at UMass.

Craig Thorburn was a PhD student in Linguistics. He’s now an Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago.

Mike McCourt was a PhD student in Philosophy. He’s still teaching and lecturing at UMD and surrounding institutions.

Mina Hirzel was a PhD student in Linguistics. She went on to a position as a language engineer at Amazon.

Chia-Hsuan Liao was a PhD student in Linguistics. She’s now an Assistant Professor at National Tsinghua University.

Phoebe Gaston was a PhD student in Linguistics. She’s now an Assistant Professor at McMaster University.

Aura Cruz Heredia was a Baggett Fellow and MEG lab manager in Linguistics. She’s now a civic/community organizer.

Anna Namyst was our long-time research assistant and MEG lab manager. She is still in the area but now manages EEG and MEG labs at the National Institutes and Health.

Eric Pelzl former PhD student in Second Language Acquisition. He’s now an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Nur Basak Karatas former PhD student in Second Language Acquisition. She’s now at the American Councils for International Education.

Zoe Schlueter – former PhD student, went on to postdoc at the University of Edinburgh.

Jeff Green– former PhD student, now an Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University

William Matchin – former neurosyntax postdoc, now an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina

Sol Lago – former PhD student, now an Assistant Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt

Wing Yee Chow – former PhD student, now a Lecturer in Experimental Linguistics at University College London (UCL)

Natalia Lapinskaya – former MEG lab manager, went on to master’s degree at McMaster University

Elizabeth Nguyen – former MEG lab manager, went on to PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati.

Bethany Dickerson – former Baggett Fellow, went on to a master’s at the University of Massachusetts

Jon Burnsky – former research assistant, went on to a PhD at the University of Massachusetts

Allison Fogel  – former research assistant, went on to a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Tufts University.

Amina Iro  – Eleanor Roosevelt High School intern, went on to the University of Wisconsin.

Uchenna Uzomah – Eleanor Roosevelt High School intern, went on to the University of North Carolina.