There are 2 lab managers, responsible for the day-to-day running of the lab:
Angela Khadar, B.A. obtained a Bachelor's degree from the University of Manchester, UK, where she studied Linguistics, French and German.She works in both the Language Acquisition group and the Social-Cognitive Development group.
Margret van Beuningen, M.A. studied Psychology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. She is in the Communication before Language group.
Babylab Director
Dr. Sabine Hunniusis the director of the Baby Research Center. She is in the Social-Cognitive Development research group.
Language Acquisition – Fikkert/Cutler research group
Faculty of Letters, Radboud Univeresity, Nijmegen (CLS)
Prof. dr. Paula Fikkert- Professor in First Language Acquisition and Phonology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. Paula obtained her doctorate at the University of Leiden with a thesis on the acquisition of prosodic aspects of words. She then worked at the University of Konstanz in Germany before returning to the Netherlands as a researcher with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on the acquisition of sounds and words in both language perception and production.
Nienke Dijkstra, M.A. studied Speech Therapy and Speech and Language Pathology in Nijjmegen. For her PhD she is looking at how babies learn sounds both in language perception and production.
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Hendrikje van der Aa is a student assistant at the BRC. Since 2007 she has been studying Dutch Language & Culture. Alongside literature, linguistics forms an important part of her degree. Hendrikje is particularly interested in child language acquisition and speech disorders.
Helen Buckler M.A. studied Languages and Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK. In her PhD she is researching how infants learn to understand and use morphologically complex words, e.g. plurals.
Sho Tsuji studied Psychology at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. For her PhD, she is interested in cross-linguistic commonalities and differences in the acquisition of phoneme categories.
Stefanie Ramachers studied German and Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. For her PhD she is investigating the development of perception and comprehension of the tone system of the Limburg dialect in babies and toddlers between the ages of 12 and 36 months.
Imme Lamertink works as a student assistant at the Baby Research Center. She is studying Dutch Language and Culture at the Radboud University, Nijmegen and for her Bachelor's dissertation she will carry out a study at the babylab which will investigate how children store morphologically complex words.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Prof. dr. Anne Cutler- Professor in Comparative Language Psychology and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholoingistics. Anne started her career studying Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and obtained a PhD in Psycholinguistics from the University of Texas, USA. She worked at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology in the USA and at the University of Cambridge, UK, before coming to the Netherlands in 1993. In 2001 she was awarded the Spinoza Prize, which she used to set up the Baby Research Center.
Caroline Junge has an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science and an M.A. in English from the University of Amsterdam. For her PhD she is investigating how babies learn their first words and which mechanisms in the bain play a role in this. She is also interested in individual variations in children's language development.
Social-cognitive development – Bekkering/Hunnius research group
Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen (Donders Center for Cognition)
Dr. Sabine Hunniusis director of the Baby Research Center. She studied Psychology in Berlin, Germany, and did her PhD at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her earlier research centered around visual perception in babies and interaction between mothers and babies. Her current research focuses mainly on early social-cognitive development. For example, she is looking at how babies learn to understand the actions and intentions of other people and when they start to do this.
Prof. dr. Harold Bekkering is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Radboud University, Nijmegen and Director of the Donders Centre for Cognition. He has a number of large international and national research projects centered around goal-oriented actions with particular emphasis on the semantic knowledge that we use to initiate our own actions and to understand the actions of others.
Janny Stapel, MScstudied Interaction between People and Technology in Eindhoven. After completion of her Master's she wanted to focus more on the "people" aspect. As part of her doctorate she will investigate how children learn to understand other people's actions.
Hinke Endedijk obtained her Master's in Behavioural Science from the Radboud University in Nijmegen. For her PhD she is looking at how well young children spontaneously adapt their behaviour to that of others. She is also investigating the role that this plays in children's social development.
Marlene Meyer, MSc recently obtained her Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Radboud University in Nijmegen. As a PhD student, she is now investigating how young children develop the ability to interact successfully with others. She is therefore looking at children’s behaviour and their brain processes while they are interacting with another person.
Denise Janssen is studying Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. For her master's thesis she is investigating how children learn from the feedback they receive on their actions and the brain processes that are linked to this.
Ricarda Braukmann is studying cognitive neuroscience at the Radboud University Nijmegen. For her master’s thesis she is investigating how everyday errors, such as dropping something, are evaluated in the brain of young infants. Communication before language – Liszkowski research group
Dr. Sarah Gerson recently completed her PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Maryland, USA. There, she studied how infants learn about the goals of other peoples' actions. In her new position at the BRC, she'll be exploring how two people incorporate their goals in order to work together and what happens in the brain during this process.
Johanna van Schaik is studying Cogntive Neuroscience at the Radboud University Nijmegen. For her Master’s thesis she is researching the development of social mimicry and the type of brain activity related to it.
Communication before language – Liszkowski research group
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Dr.Ulf Liszkowski, head of the Max Planck Independent Junior Research Group Communication Before Language
Birgit Knudsen, MSc studied Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. She is carrying out research on how and when very young children learn to understand other people's actions.
Daniel Puccini, MAstudied Linguistics at the University of New Mexico and the University of Amsterdam. His current research focuses on the link between the use of early gestures and the social-cognitive development of children.
Marloes van der Goot, MSc studied Biological Psychology at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, and is currently working as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Pyscholinguistics.
Mireille Hassemer, M.A. is working as a research assistant in the Communication Before Language group. She studied Linguistics and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Leipzig. She completed her Master's in Nijmegen, where she did research into child-directed speech and how parents communicate with their infants.
Gudmundur Thorgrimsson studied Psychology at the University of Iceland and is now completing his studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is looking at how children understand and communicate with others, and how these abilities develop during childhood.
dr. Thomas Grünloh studied Phonetics, German and Scandinavian languages at the University of Cologne. In his PhD research, he examined the role that intonation plays in the language acquisition process. His current research focuses on the question of whether children use vocalizations to communicate, even before they have acquired language.
Christiane Dietrich was a PhD student at the babylab and was supervised by Anne Cutler and Dan Swingley. She obtained her doctorate with a thesis on the acquisition of phonological structure. She then obtained a position as a postdoctoral researcher in Janet Werker’s lab at the University of Columbia.
Tania Zamuner carried out research within Paula Fikkert’s and René Kager’s NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) programme. She then spent a few years working on her VENI project. She also moved to Canada and is currently working at the University of British Columbia.
Suzanne van der Feest was a PhD student in Paula Fikkert’s and René Kager’s NWO programme. She obtained her doctorate in 2007 with a thesis on the acquisition of voicing contrasts in Dutch. She then received the “Frye Stipendium” and the “Rubicon” grant, which she used to carry out research as a postdoctoral researcher in Dan Swingley’s lab in Philadelphia. Since the 1st January 2009 she has been working at the University of Texas, Austin.
Valesca Kooijman obtained her doctorate in 2007 under the supervision of Professor Dr. Anne Cutler and Professor Dr. Peter Hagoort, with a thesis on word recognition. In her research she measured both babies’ looking behaviour and their brain activity. You can read about this research on Kennislink.
Nicole Altvater-Mackensen obtained her doctorate in 2010. Her research for her PhD focussed on how children learn words and which characteristics of speech sounds are stored. She is now working at the University of Göttingen in Germany.
Markus Paulus obtained his doctorate in 2011. His research focussed on how and when babies start to understand how objects are used and how they learn to use objects in a goal-oriented way. He is now working at the University of Munich in Germany.
Angela Khadar, B.A. obtained a Bachelor's degree from the University of Manchester, UK, where she studied Linguistics, French and German.She works in both the Language Acquisition group and the Social-Cognitive Development group.
Margret van Beuningen, M.A. studied Psychology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. She is in the Communication before Language group. 
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Hendrikje van der Aa is a student assistant at the BRC. Since 2007 she has been studying Dutch Language & Culture. Alongside literature, linguistics forms an important part of her degree. Hendrikje is particularly interested in child language acquisition and speech disorders. 
Helen Buckler M.A. studied Languages and Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK. In her PhD she is researching how infants learn to understand and use morphologically complex words, e.g. plurals.
Sho Tsuji studied Psychology at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. For her PhD, she is interested in cross-linguistic commonalities and differences in the acquisition of phoneme categories.
Stefanie Ramachers studied German and Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. For her PhD she is investigating the development of perception and comprehension of the tone system of the Limburg dialect in babies and toddlers between the ages of 12 and 36 months.
Caroline Junge has an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science and an M.A. in English from the University of Amsterdam. For her PhD she is investigating how babies learn their first words and which mechanisms in the bain play a role in this. She is also interested in individual variations in children's language development.
Denise Janssen is studying Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. For her master's thesis she is investigating how children learn from the feedback they receive on their actions and the brain processes that are linked to this.
Dr. Sarah Gerson recently completed her PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Maryland, USA. There, she studied how infants learn about the goals of other peoples' actions. In her new position at the BRC, she'll be exploring how two people incorporate their goals in order to work together and what happens in the brain during this process.
Marloes van der Goot, MSc studied Biological Psychology at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, and is currently working as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Pyscholinguistics. 
Mireille Hassemer, M.A. is working as a research assistant in the Communication Before Language group. She studied Linguistics and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Leipzig. She completed her Master's in Nijmegen, where she did research into child-directed speech and how parents communicate with their infants. 
