Alumni

University of Maryland, College Park

Ana Gouvea – PhD candidate (1999–2003)
Dissertation: Processing Syntactic Complexity: Cross-Linguistic Differences and ERP Evidence
now: Psychotherapist
Anthony Boemio – PhD candidate (1999–2003)
Dissertation: The Perceptual Representation of Acoustic Temporal Structure.
now: Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Virginie van Wassenhove – PhD candidate (1999–2004)
Dissertation: Cortical Dynamics of Auditory Visual Speech: A Forward Model of Multi-Sensory Integration.
now: Director, MEG Center, NeuroSpin, France.
Michael Gordon – Postdoc (2000–2001)
now: Clinician
Silvia Gennari – Postdoc (2000–2002)
now: Senior Lecturer, Psychology, University of York.
Kala Lakshminarayanan – PhD candidate (2000–2002)
now: Health Care Industry
Martin Hackl – Postdoc (2000–2002)
now: Professor, Linguistics, MIT.
Jeremy Bronheim – PhD candidate (2001–2004)
now: Industry
Huan Luo – PhD candidate (2001–2006)
Dissertation: Tracking Sound Dynamics in Human Auditory Cortex: New Macroscopic Perspectives from MEG.
now: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Beijing University.
Maria Chait – PhD candidate (2001–2006)
Dissertation: Auditory Edge Detection: The Dynamics of the Construction of Auditory Perceptual Representations.
Linguistics/Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences PhD, 2001-2006,
now: Professor, University College London, Ear Institute.
Kaori Ozawa – PhD candidate (2001–2006)
Robert Fiorentino – PhD candidate (2001–2006)
Dissertation: Lexical Structure and Lexical Access.
now: Professor, University of Kansas.
Lisa Sanders – Postdoc (2002–2003)
now: Professor, Psychology, UMass Amherst.
Anna Salajegheh – lab manager (2002–2006)
now: Division Director, Bellevue Hospital.
Anita Bowles – Postdoc (2003–2006)
now: Research Psychologist, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey.
Diogo Almeida – PhD candiate (2003–2009)
Dissertation: Form, Meaning, and Context in Lexical Access: MEG and Behavioral Evidence.
now: Associate Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi.
Philip Monahan – PhD candidate (2004–2009)
Dissertation: On the way to linguistic representation: neuromagnetic evidence of early auditory abstraction in the perception of speech and pitch.
Co-Advised with Dr Bill Idsardi, UMD.
now: Associate Professor, University of Toronto.
Julian Jenkins – PhD candidate (2005–2011)
Dissertation: Physiological measurement of auditory perceptual and physical space: towards a cognitive neuroscience of ecological signals.
Co-advised with Dr Bill Idsardi and Jonathan Simon, UMD.
now: Data Scientist
Mary Howard – Postdoc (2006–2009)
Greg Cogan – PhD candidate (2006–2010)
Dissertation: Temporal Dynamics of MEG Phase Information during Speech Perception: Segmentation and Neural Communication using Mutual Information and Phase Locking.
now: Assistant Professor, Duke University.
Ariane Rhone – PhD candidate (2006–2011)
Dissertation: Multi-Level Audio-Visual Interactions in Speech and Language Perception.
now: Research Scientist, University of Iowa, Psychology and Neurosurgery.
Minna Lehtonen – Postdoc (2007–2008)
now: Professor, University of Turku.
Nuria Abdulsabur – PhD candidate (2007–2009)
now: Science Administration

New York University

Yue Zhang – PhD candidate (2007–2013)
Tobias Overath – Postdoc (2008–2011)
now: Assistant Professor, Duke University.
Jean Zarate – Postdoc (2009–2013)
now: Science Communication, Duke University.
Xing Tian – Postdoc (2009–2014)
now: Associate Professor, NYU-Shanghai.
†Thomas Schofield – Postdoc (2010)
Miki Fukui – PhD candidate (2010–2013)
Co-advised with Mike Landy, NYU.
Elana Zion-Golumbic – Postdoc (2010–2013)
now: Group Leader, Bar Ilan University.
Luc Arnal – Postdoc (2011–2014)
now: Group Leader, Institut d’Audition, Paris.
Gwyneth Lewis – PhD candidate (2011–2017)
Dissertation: Neural Mechanisms of Conceptual Relations.
Nai Ding – Postdoc (2012–2017)
now: Associate Professor, Zhejiang University.
Adeen Flinker – Postdoc (2012–2017)
now: Associate Professor, NYU Medical Center.
Keith Doelling – PhD candidate (2013–2018)
Dissertation: Synchronizing Rhythms: Neural oscillations align to rhythmic patterns in sound.
now: Group Leader, Institute d’Audition, Paris.
Ido Davidesco – Postdoc (2014–2017)
now: Assistant Professor, Boston College.
Florencia Assaneo – Postdoc (2014–2020)
now: Assistant Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Suzanne Dikker – Postdoc (2014–2020)
now: Research Scientist, New York University.
Jean-Remi King – Postdoc (2015–2018)
now: Meta AI Research, Paris.
Amy Belfi – Postdoc (2015–2018)
now: Associate Professor, Missouri Technical University.
Laura Gwilliams – PhD candidate (2015–2020)
Dissertation: Towards a mechanistic account of speech comprehension.
now: Assistant Professor, Stanford University.
Pablo Ripolles – Postdoc (2016–2020)
now: Assistant Professor, New York University.
Omri Raccah – PhD candidate (2018–2023)
Dissertation: The mental representation of structured auditory sequences in memory.
now: Postdoc, Yale University.
Dana Bevilacqua – lab manager (2018–2024)
now: Industry/Teaching
Joan Orpella – Postdoc (2019–2022)
now: Assistant Professor, Georgetown University.
Arianna Zuanazzi – Postdoc (2019–2023)
now: Research Scientist, Child Mind Institute.
Francesco Mantegna – PhD candidate (2019–2024)
Dissertation: The temporal dynamics of speech motor control.
now: Postdoc, University of Oxford.

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Xiangbin Teng – PhD candidate (2011–2016), Postdoc (2017–2020)
Dissertation: On Multi-Scale Processing in The Auditory System.
now: Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Pauline Larrouy-Maestri – Postdoc (2014–2020)
now: Research Scientist, Max Planck Society.
Matthias Grabenhorst – PhD candidate (2014–2020)
Dissertation: The Anticipation of Events in Time.
now: Postdoc, Ernst Strüngmann Institute.
Alessandro Tavano – Postdoc (2014–2021)
now: Research Scientist, Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Liudmila Zaytseva – PhD candidate (2015–2018)
now: Industry
Tina Roeske – Postdoc (2015–2019)
now: Teacher
Johanna Rimmele – Postdoc (2015–2020)
now: Research Scientist, Max Planck Society.
Georgios Michalareas – Postdoc (2015–2021)
now: Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Natalie Holz – PhD candidate (2017–2024)
Dissertation: Rethinking Intensity in Vocal Affect Communication.
now: Clinician
Federico Adolfi – PhD candidate (2018–2023)
Dissertation: Computational Meta-Theory in Cognitive Science: A Theoretical Computer Science Framework.
now: Postdoc, Ernst Strüngmann Institute.