Prof. Dr. Stefanie Keulen

Stefanie Keulen obtained her master's degree in Linguistics and Literary studies (Option: language psychology and language pathologies) (MA) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2013. In 2017, she defended her PhD entitled "A Neurolinguistic Analysis of Foreign Accent Syndrome" in 2017 at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (double-degree PhD). In 2022 she obtained a prize for best thesis in the Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She has held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Research Foundation Flanders. She currently is an Associate professor and teaches Research Methodology, Language and Cognition, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics. Her research interest are: Foreign Accent Syndrome, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, motor speech disorders in general, Primary Progressive Aphasia, and aphasia in general, and she has a particular interest in bilingual populations. She guides multiple PhD students on a variety of grants. She is president of the Brussels Centre for Language Studies and a member of the motor-speech committee of the International Association of Communications Sciences and Disorders.

Projects; finalized:

"SPEAKERS’ PAUSES ANDCHINESE-ENGLISHSIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETINGOFFORMALAND INFORMAL SPEECHES—ANEFFORTMODEL PERSPECTIVE" - Weitian Deng (2022) - CSC Scholarship

Projects; on-going:

Bilingualism and aging: the case of primary progressive aphasia. Funding: FWO junior project, FWOAL938 - Silke Coemans

Idiom comprehension in Greek aphasics, OZR Research grant, OZR3847 - Anastasia Lada

Co-supervision in international collaborations

Executive functions in bilingual PPA - Bourse EUR-Healthy, Université du Côte d'Azur Nice,