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.