Staff Members

Laura Dörre

PhD student of Linguistics

Supervision of the experimental Master thesis by Dr. Eva Smolka. Laureate of the Stiftung-Schmieder Award 2013

Ongoing co-supervison of the PhD thesis  by Dr. Eva Smolka.


Nora Esser

Bachelor student of Psychology

Ongoing supervision of the experimental Bachelor thesis by Dr. Eva Smolka.

"I am working on a „Funny object“ study with an international student from Israel, in which we ask people to name objects, that everyone knows from daily life, but nobody knows the real name for. We are interested in comparing responses from different countries and languages, looking specifically at German, English, Arabic and Hebrew. My Bachelor thesis (that I am currently working on) is about short-term cross-language interference and compares Russian-German bilinguals and German native speakers in  a picture- naming and a flanker task. We investigate the effect of a transient context factor (10-minute Russian movie) and hypothesize that it will be present in both a verbal and non-verbal/ cognitive control task."


Maryam Rayan

Master student of Linguistics

Ongoing supervision of the experimental Master thesis  by Dr. Eva Smolka.

Former Staff

Janina Fickel, Master student of "Speech and Language Processing". Supervision of the experimental Bachelor thesis and the Master thesis by Dr. Eva Smolka.

Sophie Löhr, Bacherlor student of Linguistics. Supervision of the  experimental Bachelor thesis by Dr. Eva Smolka.

Nils Epp, Bachelor student of Psychology. Supervision of the experimental Bachelor thesis by Dr. Eva Smolka. 

Melanie Oeconomo, Bachelor student of Linguistics

Maria Stamatia Litsios, Master student of Linguistics

Jessica Zipf, Master student of "Speech and Language Processing"

Veronika Pöhnl, Doctoral student of "Literature-Art-Media"

Alexandra Rehn, Doctoral student of Linguistics

Anne Gwinner, Doctoral student of Linguistics

Present Staff

Nadine Steinmayer, Bachelor student of Psychology

Catrina Ziemann, Bachelor student of Psychology

Ulrike Günther, Bachelor student of Psychology

Xīyúan Gāo, Master student of "Speech and Language Processing"

Javier López, Master student of "Speech and Language Processing"