Team
Meet our members
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Joshua Snell
Principal Investigator
I’m currently an Assistant Professor at the VU in Amsterdam. Whenever I’m not writing papers, running experiments or entertaining students with my lectures, I like to play intense boardgames and make less-intense music.
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Maša Mlinarič
PhD candidate
I am a medical doctor employed as a PhD student at the VU Amsterdam. I am fascinated by cognitive neuroscience and find myself in a captivating loop as I read about reading itself. Otherwise, I enjoy climbing, creative writing and skiing.
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Adrielli Tina Lopes-Rego
PhD candidate
I am a computational linguist doing a PhD on computational modelling of reading comprehension, supervised by promotor Martijn Meeter and copromotor Joshua Snell. Besides feeding my mind with reflections about the reading brain, I feed my body with martial arts and yoga, and my spirit with long walks and loud singing.
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Veronika Prigorkina
PhD Candidate
I am a linguist currently pursuing a PhD at VU Amsterdam. I enjoy learning about cognition, particularly attentional processes during reading and prediction in language processing. I also strive to combine theory with practice by teaching children to read and helping them engage in this challenging but rewarding process.
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Venja Beck
PhD Candidate
I’m a PhD student at the VU, and am interested in anything related to language and cognition. I have a soft spot for the study of swearing, though reading is cool too I guess. In my free time I like to go swing dancing or engage in a range of artsy hobbies.