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 (MSc CNS) is running her thesis project with us, investigating audiovisual integration in EEG;
• Yuting Sun (MA student from Leiden University) is running an internship looking at audiovisual prominence in tone languages Mandarin and Cantonese;
• Viktoria Perdikogianni (MSc CNS) is doing an individual lab rotation in the group;
• Joanne van Aalst, Linde Addicks, and Joris Ottens are running an RP3/BA thesis project, testing how spoken words influence beat gesture perception in different languages;
• Tim Kolleth, Fenna Seebregts, and Lorin Wolfs are running a BA honours project testing how the manual McGurk effect works in English;
• Jet Lambers and Ewa Wawrynek are supporting our research as student-assistants;
• Roos Rossen is speerheading a one-year 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 or temporary research project with us. You will find some of their names appear as authors on our publications.

Kelly Karremans, 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.

Ronny Bujok was a PhD student in the SPEAC group from 2020 - 2024. His PhD defense is planned to take place on November 5, 2025. His thesis, entitled “When the beat drops: How beat gesture alignment with speech affects word recognition”, will be made publicly available after the defense.

Orhun Uluşahin was a PhD student in the SPEAC group from 2020 - 2025. His PhD defense is planned to take place on October 17, 2025. His thesis, entitled “Voices in our heads: Talker-specific listening and speaking”, will be made publicly available after the defense.

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.