People

Directors

Floris Roelofsen (Professor Linguistics and AI)
Roland Pfau (Associate Professor Linguistics)
Marloes Oomen (Assistant Professor Linguistics)

Permanent staff

Tobias de Ronde (Lecturer NGT and Research Support)
Beyza Sümer (Assistant Professor Sign Linguistics and Language Acquisition)
James Trujillo (Assistant Professor Visual Communication)

Postdocs

Cindy van Boven (Project: Questions)
Annika Schiefner (Project: SignBeach)

PhD candidates

Lyke Esselink (Computational Sign Language Linguistics)
Liberty Notarte Balanquit (Sign Language Linguistics)
Anna Palmann (Multimodal Communication)
Jos Ritmeester (Sign Language Learning)

Software developers / lab technicians

Jari Andersen
Gomèr Otterspeer

Data collection and curation

Jose Durado (Project: BAK)
Lisa Gierman (Projects: Health, ZINinNGT)
Galya Stern (Project: ZINinNGT)

Project management

Rudmer Canjels

Affiliate staff

Enoch Aboh (Professor Linguistics)
Rob Belleman (Lecturer Computer Graphics and Visualization)
Marco Degano (Postdoc Semantics)
Pieter Manders (Lecturer Camera Techniques and Video Editing)
Marieke Schouwstra (Assistant Professor Linguistics and AI)
Dimitrios Tzionas (Assistant Professor Computer Vision and Graphics)
Raquel Veiga Busto (Assistant Professor URJC Madrid)

PhD alumni

Jenia Khristoforova (2025)
Cindy van Boven (2024)
Ulrika Klomp (2021) Winner Best Dissertation Award, Dutch Linguistics Association
Marloes Oomen (2020)
Eveline Boers-Visker (2020)

Master and bachelor alumni

2025
Zhengdan Xia (MSc Information Studies)
Amina Izbassar (MSc AI)
Mabel Traube (BSc AI)
Max Arvilommi (BA Linguistics)
Sigrid Bruinsma (BA Cognition, Language & Communication)
Marnix Croonen (BA Linguistics)
Amaury Morizot (BA Linguistics)

2024
Esmée de Roo (BA Linguistics)
Leticia Ribeiro Rossetti (BA Linguistics)
Simone Liesveld (BA Linguistics)
Rolland Levestone (BA Linguistics)
Shane Gilchrist (MA Language & Society)
Merel van Engelen (MA Linguistics)
Lisa Loy (rMA Linguistics)
Oline Ranum (MSc AI) Winner Amsterdam AI Thesis Award
Elynn Weijland (MSc Logic)
Galya Stern (BA Linguistics)

2023
Jari Andersen (MSc Software Engineering)
Jan Pieter Kroeb (BSc CS)
Sep Huls (BSc CS)
Marleen Gaasbeek (MSc Logic)
Natalie Hollain (MSc Data Science)
Lisa Lepp (MA Linguistics)
Jos Ritmeester (MA Linguistics)
Anna-Lina Mörking (BA Linguistics)
Vivianne Joosten (MA Linguistics)
Sybil Vachaudez (MA Linguistics)

2022
Britt van Gemert (MSc AI)
Loes Gennissen (BSc AI)
Merel Atia (BSc AI)
Roel de jeu (BSc CS)
Daniël Vink (MSc CS)
Lyke Esselink (MSc AI)
Gina Habets (BA Linguistics)
Harry Hughes (MA Linguistics)
Anne ten Klooster (BA Linguistics)
Edoardo Leo (MA Linguistics)
Lotte Rusch (MA Linguistics)
Nicole Tsiane (BA Linguistics)

2021
Mark van Hofwegen (BSc AI)
Matthijs van de Vijver (BSc AI)
Alon Shilo (BSc AI)
Merel van Engelen (BA Linguistics)
Miguel Hacham (BA Linguistics)
Kristel de Laat (BA Linguistics)
Bjorn Lichtenberg (MA Linguistics)

2020
Lyke Esselink (BSc AI)
Shani Mende-Gillings (BSc AI)
Judith Corsel (BSc AI)
Jasmijn Bleijlevens (BA University College)
Belinda van der Aa (BA Linguistics)
Stephanie van den Broek (BA Linguistics)
Lisa Jungen (MA Linguistics)
Jenia Khristoforova (RMA Linguistics)
Lotte Rusch (BA Linguistics)
Laura Spijker (MA Linguistics)
Door Spruijt (RMA Linguistics)
Marissa Verbokkem (BA Linguistics)

Previous staff members

Marijke Scheffener (Lecturer NGT, retired in 2025)
Ulrika Klomp (Postdoc, 2023-2025)
Ellen Nauta (Researcher, 2023-2025)
Ray Pelupessy (Lab manager, 2023-2024)
Oline Ranum (Researcher, 2024-2025)
Raquel Veiga Busto (Postdoc,2022-2025)
Dalene Venter (Researcher, 2023-2025)
Casper Wubbolts (Researcher, 2023-2025)
Johan Ros (Researcher, 2024-2025)


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