29.844, FYI: Call for Expression of Interest: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for post-docs
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:53:42
From: Jeannette Schaeffer [j.c.schaeffer at uva.nl]
Subject: Call for Expression of Interest: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for post-docs
The LACA (Language Abilities in Children with Autism) network invites young
researchers to express their interest in writing a Marie Curie Individual
(post-doc) Fellowship together with one of the LACA labs – see attached
advertisement. The deadline for the expression of interest is 1 March 2018.
The actual deadline for submission of the actual proposal is mid-September
2018. For more details, please see ad below.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doc Positions in Europe
“Expression of Interest” for hosting Fellows
The international, cross-linguistic collaboration “Language Abilities in
Children with Autism” (LACA) invites postdoc fellows to apply together for
postdoc funding in the context of the Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual
fellowship scheme for Standard EF (European Fellows).
European Fellowships are open to researchers currently within or outside
Europe who want to work in an EU Member State or Associated Country (MS or
AC). The mobility rule applies to the MS or AC (i.e. the researcher must not
have lived, worked, or studied in the MS or AC for more than 12 months during
the 3 years prior to the deadline). The duration of the fellowship is 12 to 24
months and primarily covers the salary of the researcher (plus family
allowance). Applicants either hold a PhD degree or have at least four years of
full-time equivalent research experience at the moment of the deadline.
The LACA network will offer support during the application procedure to
candidates who would like to spend their Marie S. Curie fellowship at one of
the LACA labs. For a description of participating organisations, see below.
Secondments of up to 6 months to a second LACA lab are possible. In case of
funding, the postdoc fellow will become a member of the LACA collaboration,
receiving training and potential opportunities for further continuation of
their international scientific career.
Interested candidates should send their CV, including a list of publications,
and a short motivation letter no later than 1 April, 2018 to the supervisor
and (if applicable) the EU liaison officer at the intended host (see details
below).
Valid for the past MSCA-IF Call :
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h20
20/topics/msca-if-2017.html Type of action: Standard EF
Reintegration panel and Career Restart panel are also possible, please note
that other eligibility criteria apply.
Please refer to the 2017 guide for applicants for further information:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/guides_for_appl
icants/h2020-guide-appl-msca-if_en.pdf
The Marie S. Curie call deadline is expected in September 2018.
LACA host institutions:
1. University of Amsterdam - Prof. dr. Jeannette Schaeffer (PI), dr. Judith
Rispens, dr. Jan de Jong, prof. dr. Enoch Aboh, Natalia Rivera (PhD candidate)
Schaeffer’s team is embedded in the Amsterdam Center for Language and
Communication (ACLC), ranking highest in continental Europe for more than five
years in the QS Ranking by Subject (Linguistics). The ACLC has a beautiful
renewed language lab with state-of-the-art eye-tracking and EEG equipment.
Moreover, the ACLC has strong connections with Amsterdam Brain & Cognition
(ABC), offering a platform and collaborations across disciplines (linguistics,
psychology, social sciences, economy, neurology, biology, psychiatry, ….).
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
ACLC http://aclc.uva.nl/
ABC http://abc.uva.nl/
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Prof. Jeannette Schaeffer: J.C.Schaeffer at uva.nl
Name of EU liaison officer (if applicable): Dr. Daphne Lentjes:
d.m.lentjes at uva.nl
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. dr. Jeannette Schaeffer (PI), dr. Judith Rispens, dr. Jan de Jong, prof.
dr. Enoch Aboh, Natalia Rivera (PhD candidate)
All team members are part of the ACLC Research Group “Grammar & Cognition”
(see ACLC website), and work on the acquisition, learnability and development
of various morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic phenomena in different
(a)typical populations in relation to linguistic theory. They have ample
experience in cross-linguistic experimental designs, including many different
languages and have published in top journals such as Language Acquisition,
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Journal of Child Language,
Lingua, Brain & Language.
Schaeffer’s lab focuses on the investigation of morphosyntactic, pragmatic and
extra-linguistic abilities in children with High-Functioning Autism, within
the same linguistic phenomena ((morpho)syntax-pragmatics interface phenomena,
such as passives, pronouns, direct object scrambling) and in separate
phenomena ((morpho)syntax: subject-verb agreement, relative clauses, noun
inflection; pragmatics: scalar and conversational implicatures, information
structure). Methods include behavioral production and comprehension
experiments, sponteaneous speech collection and analysis, eye-tracking, and
ERP.
UvA has ample experience with hosting and administering Marie S. Curie
fellowships and H2020 projects in general.
2. University of Groningen - Prof. dr. Petra Hendriks, dr. Simone Sprenger,
dr. Emar Maier, dr. Jacolien van Rij and several PhD students
Hendriks’ team is embedded in the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen
(CLCG). CLCG participates in the national Dutch research school in linguistics
LOT as well as the interdisciplinary Groningen Research School of Behavioural
and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN). Students in linguistics receive training
in the Graduate School for the Humanities and the Research Master in
Linguistics, which was granted the seal ‘top rated programme’ by the Higher
Education Guide 2017. The University of Groningen is one of the oldest
universities of the Netherlands (founded in 1614) and belongs to the top 100
large comprehensive research universities in the world.
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
CLCG http://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/
BCN http://www.rug.nl/research/behavioural-cognitive-neurosciences/
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Prof. Petra Hendriks: P.Hendriks at rug.nl
Name of EU liaison officer (if applicable): n/a
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. dr. Petra Hendriks, dr. Simone Sprenger, dr. Emar Maier, dr. Jacolien
van Rij and several PhD students
The work of the team focuses on the relation between language and cognition
and investigates the development of first and second languages in (a)typical
populations (including children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD or
cochlear implants), language attrition in elderly adults, and the acquisition,
processing and use of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge. Linguistic
phenomena that are studied include pronouns, word order, subject-verb
agreement, quantification, speech reports, idioms, irony, the language of
fiction, and verbal deception. These phenomena are studied in relation to
cognitive factors such as theory of mind, inhibition, working memory, and
processing speed. Methods of investigation include behavioral experiments,
eye-tracking and pupillometry, ERP research, formal theoretical modeling, and
computational cognitive modeling.
Hendriks’ team has active collaborations with the departments of Psychiatry,
Audiology, Psychology, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence at the
University of Groningen, and participates in several national and
international networks and collaborations. The Groningen research institute
CLCG has three own labs (including an eye-tracking lab) and has access to the
state-of-the art EEG and fMRI equipment of the Neuro-Imaging Center (NIC) of
the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). The team has a special
interest in production/comprehension asymmetries in child language,
perspective taking abilities in various populations, and cognitive models of
language learning and decline.
3. University of Tours – Prof. L. Tuller, Prof. P. Prévost, Prof. S. Ferré,
Prof. C. dos Santos, Prof. R. Zebib, C. David (PhD student), E. Léger (PhD
student), S. Silleresi (PhD student)
The Tours group of linguists working on language development in ASD is part of
a multidisciplinary team (INSERM Unit 930 ‘Imagery & Brain’, Team 1 ‘Autism’)
combining neuroscientists, psychologists, pediatricians, and ENT specialists
exploring the physiopathological mechanisms underlying ASD symptoms, from
childhood to adulthood. It is involved in large projects focusing on clinical
symptoms (including language), genetics, metabolomics, and molecular imaging.
Moreover, the team is directly embedded in an Autism Research and Intervention
Center of Excellence (which performs clinical evaluation of about 100
patients, children and adults, a year, and which is equipped with
state-of-the-art eye-tracking and EEG systems) at the Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry Department of the Teaching University Hospital of Tours. This
double integration (linguists in a medical research team and in a clinical
setting) is unique in France for linguists investigating language and ASD and
offers invaluable opportunities for interactions with specialists on ASD from
different backgrounds.
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
INSERM Unit 930 ‘Imagery and Brain’, Team 1 ‘Autism’:
http://www.u930.tours.inserm.fr/teams/team-1-autism-400358.kjsp?RH=13650831866
20ABC
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Prof. Laurie Tuller:
laurie.tuller at univ-tours.fr
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. Laurie Tuller, Prof. Philippe Prévost, Prof. Sandrine Ferré, Prof.
Christophe dos Santos, Prof. Racha Zebib, Céline David (PhD student), Elodie
Léger (PhD student), Silvia Silleresi (PhD student)
The psycholinguists at the University of Tours have complementary domains of
expertise (P. Prévost & L. Tuller, morphosyntax; S. Ferré, phonology; C. dos
Santos, lexicon and phonology; R. Zebib, executive functions), which allows
them to investigate different aspects of language acquisition, including
language development in contexts of pathology (SLI and ASD), in the same
children. Their research on autism focuses on formal language abilities of
children from the whole spectrum, including low functioning children, adopting
a comparative approach with children with language impairment and no diagnosis
of autism, and with child second language learners. Their interest lies in the
investigation of complex derivations, such as wh-questions, object pronouns,
passives, and syllabic structure, and the way measures of structural language
interact with nonlinguistic cognition. Methods include behavioral production
and comprehension tasks, eye-tracking, and EEG. They have recently been
involved in large-scale projects exploring child L2 acquisition (including
comparison with SLI and ASD) (a project funded by the French National Research
Agency) and the identification of SLI in bilingual children (COST Action
IS0804 and a project funded jointly by the French and German national research
agencies), and have published in top journals such as Applied
Psycholinguistics, Brain & Language, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research, Language Acquisition, Lingua, and Second Language Research.
4. University of Potsdam - Prof. dr. Flavia Adani (PI), Dr. Christine Schipke,
Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz (PhD candidate)
Adani’s lab (ALADDIN) is part of the Department of Linguistics and of the
Research Focus Cognitive Science (RFCS) at the University of Potsdam, which is
widely recognized as one of the leading cognitive science institutes in
Germany. The institute has a state-of-the art language acquisition lab
(BabyLab) with head-turn, eye-tracking, EEG equipment. Moreover, Adani’s lab
has strong connections with the Psychology Institute at the Humboldt
University in Berlin, offering a platform and collaborations across
disciplines (linguistics, psychology, social sciences, cognitive sciences).
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
ALADDIN http://www.uni-potsdam.de/aladdin/index.html
BabyLAB http://www.uni-potsdam.de/babylab/index.html
RFCS http://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cognitive-sciences/index.html
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Prof. Flavia Adani: adani at uni-potsdam.de
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. dr. Flavia Adani (PI), Dr. Christine Schipke, Prof. dr. Isabel Dziobek,
Prof. dr. Barbara Höhle, Prof. dr. Isabell Wartenburger, Maja
Stegenwallner-Schütz (PhD candidate)
The psycholinguistic research conducted at the ALADDIN Lab focuses on how
children develop receptive and expressive language skills, starting from the
first years of life until these skills are consolidated in grown-up children,
adolescents and adults. We conduct experimental studies where
typically-developing groups are compared to those of children and adolescents
affected by developmental disorders (for example, Specific Language Impairment
and Autistic Spectrum Disorders). We hope that the results of our research can
be useful to understand the interaction of language with other cognitive
abilities and so to develop new tools to promote early assessment and
rehabilitation of language disorders. Among the phenomena investigated are:
non-local dependencies, topicalization, use and processing of referring
expressions, article choice, lexical development. In order to address
theoretical- as well as clinically-oriented questions regarding these domains,
we analyze explicit language skills combined to implicit ones (eye-movements,
ERPs). We have published on international peer-reviewed journals such as J. of
Child Language, First Language, Lingua, Frontiers in Psychology, Developmental
Science, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, NeuroImage.
5. University of Milano-Bicocca - Prof. dr. Maria Teresa Guasti, dr. Francesca
Foppolo, dr. Fabrizio Arosio, dr. Francesca Panzeri
Guasti’s team is embedded in the Department of Psychology of the University of
Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB). In 2013, UNIMIB was included in the QS World
University Rankings and in 2015 it was 1st in Italy and 24th in the world
according to the “Times Higher Education 100 under 50” table, which ranks the
world’s top 100 universities under 50 years of existence. The Department has
been ranked second among the big Departments in Italy (more than 80 staff
members) in the last evaluation and the Linguistic team in the Department has
been ranked first. The Department has several labs, state-of-the-art
eye-tracking, EEG equipment, observational lab, psycholinguistic lab.
Moreover, the team has strong connections with Centre for Neuroscience
(NeuroMi), offering a platform and collaborations across disciplines.
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
BIL group http://www.bilgroup.it/it/home/
Bilinguismoconta www.bilinguismoconta.it
Neuromi: https://neuromi.it/
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti:
mariateresa.guasti at unimib.it
Name of EU liaison officer (if applicable): Laura Masiero
laura.masiero at unimib.it
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. dr Maria Teresa Guasti (PI), dr. Francesca Foppolo, dr. Fabrizio Arosio,
dr. Francesca Panzeri, Mirta Vernice (post doc), Francesca Costa (Ph D
candidate), Valentina Persici (Ph D Candidate), Beatrice Giustolisi (Ph D
Candidate)
All team members are part of the BILGroup and of Bilinguismoconta (see
websites), and work on the acquisition, learnability and development of
various morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic phenomena in different
(a)typical populations in relation to linguistic theory. They have ample
experience in cross-linguistic experimental designs, including many different
languages and have published in top journals such as Language Acquisition,
Journal of Child Language, Lingua, Journal of Clinical linguistics, Applied
Psycholinguistics.
Guasti’s lab focuses on the investigation of morphosyntactic, pragmatic and
musical-related abilities in children with High-Functioning Autism, as
subject-verb agreement, relative clauses, clitics scalar and conversational
implicatures, predictive abilities in music and language. Methods include
behavioral production and comprehension experiments, sponteaneous speech
collection and analysis, eye-tracking.
UNIMIB has ample experience with hosting and administering Marie S. Curie
fellowships and H2020 projects in general.
6. University of Haifa – Dr. Rama Novogrodsky (PI), Prof. irit Meir, Dr.
Natlia Meir (post Doc).
Novogrodsky’s team is embedded in the Department of Communication Sciences and
Disorders and in the Sign Language Research Lab. The team has strong
connections with the University Clinic and other labs in the university,
offering a platform and collaborations across disciplines.
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorder
http://hw.haifa.ac.il/en/cd-staff-senior
Sign Language Research Lab http://signlab.haifa.ac.il/
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Dr. Rama Novogrodsky: ramanovo at gmail.com
Name of EU liaison officer (if applicable):
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Dr. Rama Novogrodsky, Prof. irit Meir, Dr. Natalia Meir (post Doc).
The lab team focuses on the interaction between language development and
cognitive development and how different components of language (such as
syntax, semantics, phonology and pragmatics) disassociate and interact. The
team explores these questions by studying diverse populations including:
typically developing children, bilingual children, children with specific
language impairment, children with autism, children with hearing impairment,
and deaf children who use sign language. Methods include production and
comprehension experiments, self-paced listening and naturalistic language
analysis.
7. Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Patras
Prof. Arhonto Terzi, Dr. Eleftheria Geronikou, Dr. Konstantinos Francis, Anthi
Zafeiri MSc., Dimitra Bafa, BSc.
Terzi’s team is embedded in the Laboratory “Theoretical and experimental
linguistics- typical acquisition and impairments (Lingstructure)” hosted by
the Department of Speech & Language Therapy. The Lab contains
state-of-the-art equipment that includes an eye-tracker and units for speech
analysis. It has strong connections with a) the Clinic of the Department, b)
practitioners throughout the country, c) the Department of Linguistics of the
University of Patras, and d) the Medical School of the University of Patras,
ensuring interdisciplinary collaborations.
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
Lab:
http://www.teiwest.gr/index.php/en/research/research-labs/item/519-linguistics
Department: http://www.teiwest.gr/index.php/en/schools/health-school/logoth
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Prof. Arhonto Terzi: aterzi at teiwest.gr
Name of EU liaison officer (if applicable): Konstantina (Dina) Boba:
boba at teiwest.gr
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
Prof. Arhonto Terzi (Linguist), Dr. Eleftheria Geronikou (Speech-Language
Pathologist), Dr. Konstantinos Francis, MD, (Child Psychologist), Anthi
Zafeiri (Linguist & Speech-Language Pathologist), Dimitra Bafa (Speech &
Language Pathologist).
All team members are part of the Lingstructure Lab and have worked on the
acquisition and development of various morphosyntactic phenomena and their
interfaces with semantics, pragmatics and phonology in different atypical
populations (children and adults), as well as in early typical language. They
have experience in cross-linguistic experimental designs, and have published
in journals such as Language Acquisition, Journal of Child Language, Lingua,
Brain & Language, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Child
Language Teaching and Therapy.
In relation to the particular network, Terzi’s Lab has focused on the
investigation of morphosyntax and its interface with semantics, pragmatics and
phonology, primarily of children with High-Functioning Autism. Structures and
phenomena that have been studied are passives, Binding, reflexives, pronouns
(strong and clitics) and information structure. It is now extending its
expertise to individuals in other parts of the autism spectrum and is
particularly interested in further sharpening specific aspects of information
structure, with the aim to better understand how it deviates in autism but
also use this knowledge in the study of typical language.
Other atypical conditions that have been studied in the lab are Broca’s
aphasia, Parkinson and SLI. Other areas of grammar that have been investigated
are relative clauses , the intervention effects that the various
morphosyntactic features may pose on them, and where in the cognitive systems
the effects are located . Methods include production and comprehension
experiments, spontaneous speech collection and analysis, and, recently,
eye-tracking.
8. University of Cambridge - Prof. Ianthi Tsimpli (PI), Dr Napoleon Katsos, Dr
Ozge Oszturk
As part of the Department for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the team in
Cambridge includes senior researchers with established positions (Prof. Ianthi
Tsimpli, Dr Napoleon Katsos) , postdoctoral researchers (Dr Elaine Schmidt, Dr
Ana Perez-Munoz, Dr Ozge Oszturk ) and five PhD students who work on various
aspects of first and second language acquisition in atypically-developing
children, especially children with autism. Our group has strong connections
with other Faculties and disciplines thanks to the Cambridge Interdisciplinary
Research Centre for Language Sciences (Prof. Tsimpli is one of the two
Directors of the IRC)..
Institute/Department:
Websites (Hyperlink):
DTAL: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dtal
CAMPAL: https://sites.google.com/site/cambridgecampal/
Contact person (name and e-mail address):
Name of potential supervisor: Prof. Ianthi Tsimpli, imt20 at cam.ac.uk, Dr
Napoleon Katsos, nk248 at cam.ac.uk
Name of EU liaison officer (if applicable): Andrea Salter
andrea.salter at admin.cam.ac.uk +44(0)1223 764079 and Renata Schaeffer
h2020 at admin.cam.ac.uk + 44 1223 333543
Scientific expertise and facilities at the host:
The team has strong interests in the acquisition and processing of syntax,
semantics, pragmatics and discourse by typically and atypically-developing
children (monolingual and multilingual). Our team includes CamPAL ( (Cambridge
Processing and Acquisition of Language Lab) with EEG, eye-tracking and
behavioural data methods and the relevant equipment is available in-house.
Extensive collaborations with Education, Biological Sciences, Psychology and
Humanities and Social Sciences are in place through the IRC and as individual
collaborations between the team members and colleagues from these Faculties
and Schools.
The Cambridge team has lead several international multi-institutional projects
leading to publications in key journals such as Applied Psycholinguistics,
Cognition, and PNAS among others.
Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics
Cognitive Science
General Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics
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