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Name: Niels Olaf Schiller Nationality: German
Date of birth: 08 April 1969
Marital status: married; one daughter
Addresses: Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) Department of Linguistics Faculty of Arts Leiden University P. O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden & Department of Psychology Cognitive Psychology Unit Faculty of Social Sciences Leiden University
Wassennaarseweg 52 2333 AK Leiden The Netherlands Private address: Boerhaavelaan 11 2324 EB Leiden The Netherlands
Telephone: ++31-71-5274171 (work; Monday, Wednesday, Friday) ++31-71-5273998 (work; Tuesday, Thursday)
++31-71-5272205 (fax) ++31-71-8882655 (private) ++31-6-41166395 (cell phone) Email-Addresses: n.o.schiller@let.leidenuniv.nl n.schiller@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Homepage: http://www.libc.leidenuniv.nl/schiller
Academic training
1990-1994 Undergraduate study (MA) at Trier University (phonetics, psychology, computational linguistics, and German philology)
1992 Spring school Artificial Intelligence (Moehne, Germany)
1994-1997 PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 1995 Netherlands Graduate School for Linguistics (LOT)
1996 Netherlands Graduate School for Linguistics (LOT)
1996 Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI) Postgraduate Trainee program 1996-1997 European Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Sciences (SISSA; Trieste, Italy) 1997 Netherlands Graduate School for Linguistics (LOT)
1997 ESCoP summer school "Psychology of Language" (Bressanone, Italy)
1998-1999 GAAC summer institute "The Evolution of Intelligence: The Comparative Analysis of Cognition" (Boston, USA/Bielefeld, Germany)
1998-2000 Post-doctoral training at the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Academic degrees
Magister Artium (M.A.), Trier University, 20 June 1994
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nijmegen University, 25 November 1997 Professor of Psychology, Maastricht University, 1 March 2004
Professor of Psycho- and Neurolinguistics, Leiden University, 1 July 2006
Employment
07/06-today: Professor of psycho- and neurolinguistics atLeiden University (The Netherlands)
09/03-06/06: Professor of psycholinguistics atMaastricht University(The Netherlands) and senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
02/00-08/03: Academy researcher (assistant/associate professor) of theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) atMaastricht University and at theMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (The Netherlands)
03/98-01/00: Post-doctoral research fellow of theCognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory in the Department of Psychology atHarvard University (USA)
12/97-02/98: Research fellow,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
11/94-11/97: Ph.D. student,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
07/93-06/94: Research assistant, Institute of Phonetics,Trier University (Germany) 07/92-06/93: Research assistant, Institute of Computational Linguistics,Trier University
(Germany)
03/92-04/92: Trainee atSiemens Nixdorf AG, Department for machine translation, Project METAL (Munich)
Visiting researcher abroad
03/98-01/00: Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory (director: Alfonso Caramazza), Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA)
04/03-05/03: Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (director: Jonathan Grainger), CNRS, Université de Provence, Marseille (France) (host: Xavier-F. Alario)
10/05-12/05: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS; director: Max Coltheart), Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia) (host: Sachiko Kinoshita)
Prizes, stipends, and grants
PhD stipend (1994-1997) of theMax-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
(Munich) for the project titled "The Role of the Syllable in Speech Production" Research stipend 1995 and 1997 of theInternational Association for Forensic Phonetics
(IAFP) for the study titled "The Influence of Native-Language Background on Speaker Recognition"
Otto-Hahn-Medal (1998) of theMax-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Munich
Research stipend (1998/1999) for theGerman and American Young Scholars' Institute on "The Evolution of Intelligence: The Comparative Analysis of Cognition" of the
German American Academic Council(GAAC), Berlin
Post-doctoral stipend (1999) in the area of neuropsychology in the cognitive-neuroscientific section of theInternational School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste (Italy) Academy researcher of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (2000-2005)
[Akadmie-Onderzoeker van deKoninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen], Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
VICI grant [vernieuwingsimpuls] of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (2003-2008) [Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek], Den Haag (The Netherlands); volume: € 1.250.000
Open Competition grant 2004 of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (2006-2009) [Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek], Den Haag (The
Netherlands); volume: € 170.000
Member ofDe Jonge Akademie [The Young Academy] of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (2005-2009)
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS) visitor’s grant to stay at the MACCS as a Visiting Fellow from 1 October to 12 December 2005. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (Aus $ 11,185)
Australian Social Science Association (ASSA) visitor’s grant supporting a stay at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (Aus $ 3,000)
NWO Fonds Internationalisering Sociale Wetenschappen (Fonds IWS) grant for the workshop “10e Wintercongres van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie (NVP)” (€ 1,360)
Dr. Tanswisselleerstoel (Dr. Tans alternating professorship) of the Universiteitsfonds Limburg (University Funds Limburg)/SWOL (2006)
Organization of workshops, symposia, & conferences
Eighth wintercongress of the Netherlands Psychonomic Society, Egmond aan Zee (The Netherlands), 14-15 December, 2001.
Nineth wintercongress of the Netherlands Psychonomic Society, Egmond aan Zee (The Netherlands), 19-20 December, 2003.
Symposium "Self-monitoring" at the Nineth wintercongress of the Netherlands Psychonomic Society, Egmond aan Zee (The Netherlands), 19-20 December, 2003.
Open day "Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University" (Netherlands Psychonomic Society), Maastricht (The Netherlands), 13-14 May, 2004.
Symposium "Language processing" at 3rd Endo-Neuro-Psycho Conference, Doorweerth (The Netherlands), 1-4 June, 2004.
Second International Workshop on Language Production, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht (The Netherlands), 28-30 August, 2005.
Tenth wintercongress of the Netherlands Psychonomic Society, Egmond aan Zee (The Netherlands), 16-17 December, 2005.
Symposium “Language production” at the Belgium Association for Psychological Science meeting, Liège (Belgium), 19 May, 2006.
Symposium "Cognitive neuroscience of language" at 5th Endo-Neuro-Psycho Conference, Doorweerth (The Netherlands), 6-9 June, 2006.
Teaching
Tutorial "Einführung in die Computerlinguistik". Universität Trier, Fachbereich II: Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaften, Wintersemester 1992/93 Sprach-und Sommersemester 1993.
Seminar ("Language production in aphasia") in Block "Neurocognition of Language", Department of Neurocognition, Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, 18. September 2000.
Seminar ("Right hemisphere damage and plasticity") in block "Brain and Plasticity",
Department of Neurocognition, Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, 4. Dezember 2000.
Schrijfonderwijs IIb. Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, April-Mai, 2001. Onderzoekspraktikum 2.7: "Onderzoek - How to do it?". Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, Mai-Juni, 2001.
Schrijfonderwijs IIa. Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, November 2001-Januar 2002.
“Psychodiagnostiek”. Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, November-Dezember 2001.
“Waarnemen” [Seminar]. Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, November-Dezember 2001.
Taal practicum. Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, Januar 2002. Seminar ("One classical experiment in experimental psychology"). Opening lecture
Onderzoekspraktikum 2.7: "Onderzoek - How to do it?". Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, Mai-Juni 2002.
“The neurocognition of language” (keuzeblok 4.1). Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, August-September, 2002.
“Introductie in psycholinguïstiek”. Faculteit der Letteren, Universiteit Nijmegen, November-December 2002.
“Taal” [Seminar]. Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, January-February 2003. Seminar ("Taal"). Lecture in Blok 1.5B "Menselijk kennen", Faculty of Psychology,
University of Maastricht, May 12, 2003.
Seminar ("The Moses Illusion"). Opening lecture "Onderzoekspraktikum 2.7", Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, May 19, 2003.
Onderzoekspraktikum 2.7: "Onderzoek - How to do it?". Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, May-June, 2003.
“The neurocognition of language” (keuzeblok 4.1). Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, August-September, 2003.
Seminar ("Is there free will?"). Opening lecture for "Onderzoekspraktikum 2.5A", Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, April 5, 2004.
Seminar ("Het mentale lexicon"). Lecture in blok 1.5B "Complexe cognitie", Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, April 26, 2003.
“The mental lexicon – Speech production”. Lecture/seminar series as part of the Research Master "Cognitive Neuroscience", specialization "Psycholinguistics", Universiteit Nijmegen, January-February, 2004.
The cognitive neuroscience of auditory/speech perception (blok 3.6.7). Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, May-June, 2004.
Seminar ("Speech perception"). Lecture in blok 3.6.7 "The cognitive neuroscience of
auditory/speech perception", Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, June 14, 2004. “The neurocognition of language” (keuzeblok 4.1). Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht, August-September, 2004.
“The mental lexicon – Speech production”. Lecture/seminar series as part of the Research Master "Cognitive Neuroscience", specialization "Psycholinguistics", Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, January-February, 2005.
“Psycholinguistics”. LOT (Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalwetenschap [Dutch researchschool for linguistics]) summerschool, Universiteit Leiden, 13-17 June, 2005.
“The mental lexicon – Speech production”. Lecture/seminar series as part of the Research Master "Cognitive Neuroscience", specialization "Psycholinguistics", Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, September, 2005.
“The mental lexicon – Speech production”. Lecture/seminar series as part of the Research Master "Cognitive Neuroscience", specialization "Psycholinguistics", Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, September-October, 2006.
Supervision of students
Elizabeth Molloy, Harvard University (B.A.), 1999 Frouke Hermens, Nijmegen University (M.A.), 2000
Joana Cholin, Nijmegen University & MPI (Ph.D.), 2000-2004 Beate Schwichtenberg, Osnabrück University (B.A.), 2001 Keren Shatzman, Nijmegen University (M.A.), 2002
Mariëlle van Wilgenburg, Universiteit Utrecht (M.A.), 2002 Marc Schipper, Osnabrück University, March 2002
Karen Mansfield, Nijmegen University (M.A.), 2003 Iemke Horemans, Maastricht University (M.A.), 2003 Jolijn Pieterse, Maastricht University (M.A.), 2003
Heidi Koppenhagen, Maastricht University (Ph.D.), 2003-2007
Aleksandra Ganushchak, Maastricht & Leiden University (Ph.D.), 2003-2007 Iemke Horemans, Maastricht University (Ph.D.), 2003-2007
Steffie Vroomen, Nijmegen University (M.A.), 2004 Meddy Weijmans, Maastricht University (M.A.), 2004 Nina Groten, Bonn University (M.A.), 2005
Steffi Pfeiffer, Maastricht University (Ph.D.), 2005-2009 Teresa Schuhman, Maastricht University (Ph.D.), 2006-2009 Anne Zumach, Nijmegen University (B.A.), 2006
Minke Greupink, Nijmegen University (B.A.), 2006 Daphne van Dongen, Maastricht University (M.A), 2006 Rinus Verdonschot, Maastricht University (M.A.), 2006
Membership in dissertation committees and other juries Heike Martensen, Nijmegen University, 2001
Holger Mitterer, Maastricht University, 2003
Joana Cholin, 2004 (co-promotor; Nijmegen University) Niko Kriegeskorte, Maastricht University, 2004
Member of the dissertation prize jury of the Netherlands Association of Applied Linguistics (Association néerlandaise de linguistique appliqué; Anéla) 2005
Jochen Barth (09-06-2005), “Search and exploration of hidden objects by Great Apes and young children” (chairman; Maastricht University)
Sanae Okamoto-Barth (09-06-2005) “Gaze processing in chimpanzees and humans” (chairman; Maastricht University)
Astrid Breien (08-06-2005) “Gender congruency in Norwegian” (external reviewer and examiner of MA thesis; Bergen, Norway)
Anke Hammer (30-06-2005) “Pronominal reference in sentences about persons of things” (member of the manuscript committee; Maastricht University)
Katharina Spalek (08-11-2005) “Storage and retrieval of lexico-syntactic properties in
language production: The case of grammatical gender” (member of the manuscript committee; Radboud University Nijmegen)
Oliver Müller (20-01-2006) “Retrieving semantic and syntactic word properties. ERP studies on the time course in language comprehension” (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Vincent van de Ven (27-01-2006) “Connectivity and auditory verbal hallucinations: Contributions of functional imaging and psychometric studies” (member of the manuscript committee; Maastricht University)
Keren Shatzman (07-04-2006) “Sensitivity to detailed acoustic information in word recognition” (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Marieke van Herten (07-09-2006) "Executive control of sentence perception. An electrophysiological investigation" (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Regular reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Memory and Language
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Cognition. International Journal of Cognitive Science
Bilingualism. Language and Cognition
Neuropsychologia. An International Journal in Behavioural Neuroscience Language and Speech
Brain and Language
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Psychophysiology
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology Language and Cognitive Processes
Perceptual and Motor Skills. Psychological Reports Acta Psychologica
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Human Brain Mapping
Cognitive Brain Research/Brain Research Memory & Cognition
Current Psychology Letters Experimental Psychology
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A Neuroscience Letters
Grant reviews
National Science Foundation (NSF) Gertrud Reemtsma Stiftung
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG)
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Membership in professional organizations International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS) International Phonetic Association (IPA)
International Association for Forensic Phonetics (IAFP)
Phonetic Sciences]
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA) [German Society for Acoustics] Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) [German Society for Linguistics] Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) [Society for Applied Linguistics] European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP)
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie (NVP) [Dutch Society for Psychonomics] (member of the board)
Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) The Psychonomic Society
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
Experimenteel-Psychologische Onderzoekschool (EPOS) [Research School for Experimental Psychology] (member of the board)
De Jonge Akademie (DJA) [The Young Academy] Editorial work
The Phonetician. Bulletin of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS) (editor 1999-2003)
Italian Journal of Linguistics (member of the editorial board since 2005)
