Martijn Wieling elected Vice President of The Young Academy

UG researcher Martijn Wieling has been elected Vice President by the members of The Young Academy. The Young Academy is a platform within the Royal Dutch Academy for Science (KNAW) comprising young researchers who are at the top of their field internationally. The Academy organizes activities in the field of science and society, interdisciplinarity and academic policy.

Professor of Social & Organizational Psychology Belle Derks (UU) has been appointed President, and experimental psychologist Stefan van der Stigchel (UU) will join the board, which further comprises Behnam Taebi (Philosophy of Technology, TUD) and Patricia Dankers (Chemistry, TUE).

Martijn Wieling

Wieling conducts computational research on dialects at the department of Information Science. Among other things, he studies how the tongue and lip movements of Dutch and German native speakers differ from those of English native speakers, and how visualizing these movements could help improve their pronunciation.

After graduating with distinction with a Master’s in Computing Science and Behavioural Cognitive Neurosciences from the UG, Wieling gained his PhD with distinction with a thesis researching quantitative methods of investigating differences in dialect. Wieling was appointed a member of The Young Academy in 2014. In May 2016 he won the prestigious European Young Researchers Award. The jury expressed its admiration for Wieling as an exceptional, widely-orientated and socially engaged researcher.

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