About us

Prof Dr Volker Dellwo – president of the LiRI Steering Committee, vice president of the steering committee of the Zurich Center for Linguistics, head of the Phonetics Lab , of the Department of Computational Linguistics, and of the Center for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, professor of Phonetics

Prof DrNoah Bubenhofer – member of the LiRI Steering Committee, professor of German Linguistics, UZH representative in the CLARIN-CH consortium, member of Sounding Board of Researchers in the Open Research Data National Strategy Council, and PI of the ORD projects UpLORD and FAIR-FI-LD

Prof DrMartin Meyer – member of the LiRI Steering Committee, professor of Evolutionary Neuroscience of Language

Prof DrGuido Seiler – president of the executive board of the Zurich Center for Linguistics, professor of German Philology

Scientific director: Prof Dr Steven Moran 

Managing director: Dr  Agnes Kolmer

MA Andrew A. Clark – Laboratory and IT service area; experimental design and implementation, data steward

MSc Nikolina Rajović & MSc Igor Mustač (deputy) – Software Development service area; software engineers and specialists in computer science and communication technology

Prof Dr Gerold Schneider & Dr Tilia Ellendorff (deputy) – Natural Language Processing (NLP) service area; data scientists with focus on NLP & Human Language

Dr Guanghao You – NCCR@LiRI services; data scientist with focus on data processing, aggregation and database solutions

Dr Elena Bolt – Statistics and Research Analytics service area for statistical and data science consulting in language-related research

BA Mara Baccaro – participant recruiter (innovation hub)

MA Stefan Bircher – scientific programmer

MSc Alessandro De Luca – data scientist with focus on machine learning and bioacoustics

Dr Daniel Friedrichs – data scientist specialized in speech acoustics and articulatory imaging

Dr Yingqiang Gao - linguistic application engineer

Dr Jean-Philippe Goldman – web developer and data scientist with focus on NLP & speech

Dr Nianlong Gu – data scientist with focus on machine learning; NCCR@LiRI services

MA Zirui Huang – research assistant

Dr Dagmar Jung - archiving linguistic data with LaRS (Language Repository of Switzerland, a Data Service Unit of SWISSUbase); data scientist with focus on fieldwork-based data acquisition

MA Clemens Fidel Lutz - content producer LiRI Resources Hub

Dr Tannon Kew – linguistic application engineer

Dr Andri Manser – statistical consultant

Dr Pavo Orepić – postdoctoral researcher, LiRI Resources & Innovation Hub

Dr Valeriia Perepelytsia – postdoctoral researcher

Dr Sumit Kumar Ram – data scientist with focus on databases; NCCR@LiRI services

Dr Erik Ringen – data scientist with specialization in statistics; NCCR@LiRI services

MA Klaus Rothenhäusler – data scientist with focus on NLP & human language technology

MA Jonathan Schaber – data scientist with focus on NLP & human language technology

BSc Bernard Schroffenegger – NLP & Human Language Technology engineer

MA Huw Swanborough – data scientist with focus on fMRI and machine learning

MA Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu – NLP, Machine Learning & Human Language Technology engineer

Dr Enrico Varano – developer of a platform for online experiments & postdoctoral researcher in NCCR Evolving Language Work Package affiliated with LiRI

Dr Teodora Vuković – project coordinator of LiRI Corpus Platform (LCP) andVIAN-DH project

Dr Jeremy Zehr – data scientist with focus on development of linguistic applications

MA Andrew Clark – responsible for LiRI's IT infrastructure

MA Stefan Bircher – IT network, system administrator

BSGuglielmo Chelazzi Grandinetti – IT support specialist

MSc Igor Mustač – responsible for special IT infrastructure needs of LiRI projects

Dr Agnes Kolmer – head of administration

MA Maaike Kellenberger – communication strategist & campaigns

MA Sarah Krause – administrative organizer and coordinator

MA Raffaela Zaugg – administrative organizer and coordinator

Dr Cristina Grisot – national coordinator CLARIN-CH

Dr Joana Blochowiak – training officer (coordination office)

MA Alexandru Craevschi – technical officer (coordination office, UpLORD project)

BA Seraina Nadig – content officer (coordination office, UpLORD project)

Dr Letizia Volpin – project coordinator (coordination office; UpLORD, FAIR-FI-LD projects)

NCCR Evolving Language, with the Transversal Task Force (TTF) DataScience integrated as NCCR @ LiRI special service area, scientifically overseen by Prof Richard Hahnloser, Prof Reinhard Furrer, and Prof Sabine Stoll.

CLARIN Switzerland Consortium / Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure in Switzerland, CLARIN-CH (president of consortium: Prof Anita Auer), coordination office hosted by LiRI, with Dr Cristina Grisot as national coordinator.

Language Respository of Switzerland (LaRS) @ SWISSUbase , a national platform for the publication of linguistic research data / University Library Zurich in collaboration with SWISSUbase, Dr Andrea Malits, Dr Christian Futter, Dr Stefanie Strebel

Science IT (S3IT) / Central IT UZH, Service and Support for Science IT, Dr Marcel Riedi

Prof Dr Shanley E.M. Allen, TU Kaiserslautern, professor of Psycholinguistics and Language Development, dean Faculty of Social Sciences TU Kaiserslautern

PD Dr Alexander Geyken, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, leader of the center for digital lexicography of the German language

Prof Dr Katrin Skoruppa, Université de Neuchâtel, Institut des sciences logopédique, professor of speech and language therapy

Prof Dr Stuart Rosen, University College London UCL, professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences

Prof Dr Isabell Wartenburger, University of Potsdam, professor of Patholinguistics and Neurocognition of Language

2024

BA Shiran Liu – student assistant

BA Alon Cohen – web developer

PD Dr Sandra Schwab – data scientist specialized in statistics for linguistic research

MA Mirela Ratoi – assistant

Dr Daniel McDonald – data scientist with focus on development of linguistic applications

MSc Yuliia Parfenova - software developer for linguistic applications & machine learning engineer

MA Sarah Debora Schwedes - student assistant in cineMINDS project

Prof Dr Audrey Bürki - statistical consultant

BA Ratih Jessy Arieswandari - student assistant in lab project

Dr Johannes Graën - data scientist with focus on databases

Dr Megan Wyman - postdoctoral researcher NCCR @ LiRI

Dr Remo Nitschke - postdoctoral researcher NCCR @ LiRI

2023

Dr Nicholas Jourjine - postdoctoral researcher NCCR @ LiRI

MSc Pyros-Orfeas Bollano - administrative assistant

2022

Dr Sabine Güsewell - statistical consultant

2021

Edward Anin - student assistant

Dr Elisa Pellegrino - lab experimental officer

BA Nick Sommerhalder - student assistant

BA Zino Wellauer - student assistant

2020

MA Adrian van der Lek - assistant

MSc Ghazi Hachfi - assistant

Dr Lei He - lab manager

BA Xueying Liu - student assistant

MA Catherine Yoko Okaya - assistant

BA Andrea Santos - student assistant

2019 - LiRI preparation phase, funded by URPP Language and Space and the Zurich Center for Linguistics

Dr Taras Zakharko - consultant software development

PD Dr Gerold Schneider - consultant software development

BA Stefan Vranković - software engineer