Our Team

Yulia is a cognitive neuroscientist with interests in everything related to speech and language.

Prior to starting the lab in Tübingen, she worked as a postdoc at  the University of California, San Francisco and got her PhD at the Freie Universitat and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) in Berlin.

Outside science Yulia studies trilingual language acquisition with her son and waits for him to walk well enough to explore the hiking trails around Tuebingen.

Yulia speaks Russian, German, Hebrew, and English in her day to day. She sometimes tries to speak Spanish and French, but mostly with little success.

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Charlotte is a speech and language therapist turned cognitive scientist with an interest in the neural underpinnings of multimodal language processing. After receiving her B.A. from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Charlotte moved to Kaiserslautern and completed her M.Sc. in Cognitive Science at the Technical University. In February 2022, she joined the HVC lab as a PhD student. Charlotte is currently interested in temporal landmarks in the speech signal and plans on using electrophysiological as well as behavioral data in the future.

In her free time, she enjoys making lino prints and trying out new recipes. Charlotte speaks German and English, and is currently brushing up on her French.

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Mara is a natural scientist with a focus on auditory neuroscience and electrophysiological signal processing. She started as a PhD candidate in the lab in February 2022. Mara completed her Bachelor’s in biological sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she did research on the auditory system of bats. For her Master’s, she specialized in interdisciplinary neuroscience at the same university. Her main interest lies in how the human auditory system integrates information over time, in particular how humans adjust to different speech rates. Outside of the lab, she enjoys jogging and singing/songwriting with her guitar. Mara speaks German, Luxembourgish, English and French, she also tries to wrap her head around Greek (amazing how every Greek sentence feels like a math formula!).

Andrey received a B.A. degree in Linguistics and an M.A. degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at the HSE University, Moscow, Russia. He has been using neuroimaging and stimulation methods in clinical populations to study the neuroanatomical substrates of language processing. In 2022, Andrey joined the HVC lab as a student of the 5-year M.Sc./Ph.D. program at the International Max Planck Research School: The Mechanisms of Mental Function and Dysfunction. His research aims to better understand the mechanisms that enable the mapping between the phonological and the lexical-semantic representations of words. In his free time, Andrey likes doing sports, with his favorite one being skiing. He speaks Russian and English.

Léane is a life science student specialized in neuroscience. She joined the HVC lab for a summer internship in 2022. After graduating from her Bachelor in neuroscience from Aix-Marseille University in June 2022, she will start as a Master student in the Integrated, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience program of Marseille. Her main subjects of interest are the language and communication, but also the attentional system especially under the light of some neurodevelopmental disorders. In her spare time, Léane enjoys reading, listening to music and playing badminton. She speaks French, English and some Spanish and is trying to learn Italian and now German.