Giulio Severijnen did his PhD at the Donders Center for Cognition [DCC], part of the Donders Institute at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2020-2024). His PhD project was supervised by Prof. James McQueen, Dr. Hans Rutger Bosker, and Dr. Ashley Lewis. His research investigated between-talker and within-talker variability in prosody production, with a specific focus on lexical stress and speech rate. He also tested how listeners flexibly adapt to this variability in order to successfully comprehend different talkers. The project was funded through a ‘Donders Internal PhD Round’ grant, awarded to Prof. James McQueen, Dr. Hans Rutger Bosker, and Dr. Ashley Lewis. After his PhD, Giulio took up a postdoc position with Prof. Davide Crepaldi at the Language, Learning and Reading lab (SISSA, Trieste, Italy).