Team

Meet our members


  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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