Aylin Küntay#
| Membership Number: | 6807 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
| Homepage(s): | https://aylinkuntay.com/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9057-7556 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 September - present Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University, Istanbul
- 2018 October - 2022 November, Director of the Graduate School Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University, Istanbul
- 2012 January - 2014 December, Visiting Professor, Educational Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- 2010 - present Professor of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul
- 2005 - 2010 Associate Professor of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul
- 1999 - 2005 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul
- 1995 - 1998 Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics, UC, Berkeley
Fields of Scholarship
- Communicative development
- Gestures
- Bilingualism and heritage languages
- Social robots in educational use
- Psycholinguistics
- Child language development
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Prince Claus Chair for Development and Equity, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- 2013 Outstanding Faculty Award, Koç University, Istanbul
- 2007 Elected to the Executive Board of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
- 2002 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences
