Students regularly contribute to our research in the form of BA/MA theses, lab rotations, internships, honours projects, or as student-assistants. Current student projects include:

• Arezu-Alexia Vaezei (MA student, CNS) is running her thesis project with us, testing the manual McGurk effect using the MMN paradigm in EEG;
• Jeroen Boon, Charlotte Kuijpers, Rosalie Nillesen, Nastia Schamanska, and Salena Sinha are running a BA thesis project, testing how a range of different visual signals influence audiovisual stress perception;
• Marit van Rossum is running a B3 Honours project with us (resulting in her BA thesis), testing the manual McGurk effect in adverse listening conditions;
• Jet Lambers and Ewa Wawrynek are supporting our research as student-assistants;
• Roos Rossen is speerheading a team science project aiming to engage the larger public with our research through the Donders Citylab.

And these are the names of bright students who in the past wrote their BA/MA thesis in the group or who did an internship project with us. You will find some of their names appear as authors on our publications.

Yuting Sun, Tim Kolleth, Fenna Seebregts, Lorin Wolfs, Joanne van Aalst, Linde Addicks, Joris Ottens, Sarah Kapp, Renske Rötjes, Anna Schreurs, Elhaam Hasan, Senne Voermans, Iris Hulzebosch, Jasmijn Pieters, Renske Uilenreef, Yitian Hong, Ivy Mok, Eleni Zimianiti, Christina Papoutsi, Nora Kennis, Myriam Weiß, Marie Stadtbäumer, Vilde Reksnes, Jeonga Kim, Marjolein van Os, Rebecca Wogan, Rik Does, Wibke Naumann, Anna Ravenschlag.

On 5th Nov, 2025, Ronny Bujok publicly defended his PhD thesis: When the beat drops: How beat gesture alignment with speech affects word recognition. After his PhD, Ronny did a postdoc with Dr. Lieke van Maastricht at the CLS, Radboud University.

On 17th Oct, 2025, Orhun Uluşahin publicly defended his PhD thesis: Voices in our heads: Talker-specific listening and speaking. Afterwards, Orhun took up a postdoc position at the DCC with Prof. James M. McQueen.

On 14th Febr, 2025, Giulio Severijnen was awarded the title of doctor with distinction, cum laude. His PhD thesis was entitled: A blessing in disguise: How prosodic variability challenges but also aids successful speech perception. After his PhD, he took up a post-doc position at SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

On 19th Jan, 2021, Greta Kaufeld obtained a PhD for her thesis, Investigating spoken language comprehension as perceptual inference. After her PhD, she took up a position at Disney Research Studios.

On 24th Sept, 2020, Joe Rodd obtained his doctorate after having successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled How speaking fast is like running: modelling control of speaking rate. After his PhD, he took up a position at the ‘Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs’ [DUO].

On 12th Dec, 2019, Merel Maslowski successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled Fast speech can sound slow: effects of contextual speech rate on word recognition. After her PhD, she took up a position at Royal Dutch Kentalis.