Ailbhe Ní Chasaide#
| Membership Number: | 6374 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.tcd.ie/slscs/staff/anichsid |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7871-5928 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 - current Professor in Phonetics, Trinity College Dublin
- 1993 - 2003 Senior Lecturer in Phonetics, Trinity College Dublin
- 1989, 08 Visiting Research Fellow Royal Institute of Technology KTH/Stockholm University, Sweden
- 1987, 08 Visiting Scientist, M.I.T. Speech Group, Cambridge Mass.
- 1987, 04 Visiting Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven
- 1987, 01 Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Institute of Technology KTH/Stockholm University, Sweden
- 1982, 06 Visiting Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University
- 1979 - 1992 Lecturer in Phonetics, Trinity College Dublin
- 1974 - 1975 Lectrice d'Anglais, CES Grand Parc Bordeaux, France
- 1973 - 1974 Junior Research and Teaching Fellow, French Dept. University College Galway
Fields of Scholarship
- Voice quality and its interaction with melody in linguistic and expressive prosody
- Experimental phonetics
- Speech production, acoustics and perception
- Documentation and maintenance of endangered languages, with a focus on Irish
- Linguistic resources and speech technology for Irish
- Intonation of Irish dialects
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Elected member of the ISCA IAC (Advisory Council to the International Speech Communication Association)
- 2019 Elected to Council of the International Phonetic Association (consistently re-elected since 1991)
- 2019 Elected Member of the Permanent Council of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPHS)
- 2015 Gradaim na Gaeilge 2015 (Irish Language Service Award: Trinity College Dublin) by popular vote
- 2014 AIM AWARDS 2014 (All Ireland Marketing Awards: Best Irish Business) by vote
- 2008 Nominated for ‘Person of the year award’, by FOINSE Newspaper readership - response to first Irish synthetic voice
- 2003 Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2003 Research Award from Arts & ESS Benefaction Fund: for research visit to ATR, Kyoto, Japan
- 1998 Fellow Trinity College Dublin (elected)
- 1995 Treasurer of the International Phonetic Association (elected for the period 1995-2003)
- 1993 Vice President of the International Phonetic Association (elected for the period 1995-2003)
- 1989 Trinity Trust Award: for research at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
- 1987 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship: for research at M.I.T. Speech Group & Haskins Laboratories, New Haven
- 1986 Swedish Institute Scholarship for research at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- 1985 CNRS (Paris)/ and NBST (Dublin) Award: research visits, French speech labs in Aix, Grenoble, Nancy, Lannion, Paris
- 1982 Senior Research Fellowship, Oxford University
- 1977 University of Wales Studentship
- 1975 Postgraduate Scholarship from Irish Linguistics Institute (ITÉ)
- 1973 Junior Research and Teaching Fellowship, University College Galway
