Nuria Sebastian Galles#
| Membership Number: | 4107 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.sap.upf.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Full Professor, Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Pompeu Fabra University
- 2010 Visiting Professor Department of Psychology, University of Chicago. Chicago. U.S. (4 months)
- 2001 - 2009 Full Professor, Department of Basic Psychology, University of Barcelona
- 1992 Visiting Researcher, Institute of Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. U.S. (3 months)
- 1988 Visiting Researcher Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik Nijmegen. Netherlands (5 months)
- 1987 - 2001 University Lecturer, Department of Basic Psychology, University of Barcelona
- 1987 Postdoctoral Fellow Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- 1987 Visiting Researcher Laboratoire de Psycholinguistique et Sciences Cognitive, Paris, France (3 months)
- 1986 - 1987 Assistant Professor Department of Basic Psychology, University of Barcelona
- 1982 - 1986 Assistant Professor Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Barcelona
Fields of Scholarship
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Bilingualism
- Infant cognition
- Brain imaging
- Language processing
- Speech processing
Honours and Awards
- 2014 - present Vice-President European Research Council (ERC)
- 2013 Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council
- 2013 - 2018 ERC Advanced Grant, UNDER CONTROL: Mechanisms of cognitive control and language learning
- 2012 Narcis Monturiol Medal
- 2011 - 2013 President of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology
- 2011 Member of the Advisory Council. International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance
- 2010 Tinker Visiting Professor at the Dept of Psychology. Univ of Chicago, Spring term
- 2009 - 2011 President elect of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology
- 2009 Elected Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
- 2009 - present Associate editor of Frontiers in Language Sciences
- 2005 Nijmegen Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- 2005 - 2014 Associate editor of Developmental Science
