About us
LiRI Board
Prof Volker Dellwo - leader of the LiRI project, representative LiRI DAU (Data Acquisition Units) Phonetics, vice president of the executive board of the Zurich Center for Linguistics, head of the Phonetics Lab and of the Center for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, professor of Phonetics
Prof Noah Bubenhofer - representative LIS (LiRI Information System), professor of German Linguistics
Prof Martin Meyer - representative LiRI DAU (Data Acquisition Units) Neurolinguistics, professor of Evolutionary Neuroscience of Language
Prof Guido Seiler - president of the executive board of the Zurich Center for Linguistics, professor of German Philology
Staff
MA Stefan Bircher - system administrator, network management & scientific programming
MA Andrew A. Clark - lab technician and lab manager
BSc Alessandro De Luca - data scientist, machine learning expert
Dr Johannes Graën - head of Language Technology team, database engineering and programming
Dr Dagmar Jung - data acquisition officer, with a focus on fieldwork-based data acquisition
Dr Agnes Kolmer - operative leader and manager of the LiRI project and unit
Dr Andri Manser - data scientist, statistical consulting
Dr Daniel McDonald - linguistic application engineer
MSc Igor Mustač - computer scientist and software developer
MSc Nikolina Rajović - linguistic application engineer, specialst in information and communication technology
BA Mirela Ratoi - assistant admin and lab
MA Klaus Rothenhäusler - scientific programmer with specialization in natural language processing
MA Jonathan Schaber - assistant LIS team
MA Huw Swanborough - data scientist, machine learning expert
MA Raffaela Zaugg - administrative assistant
NCCR@LiRI group members:
Dr Guanghao You - data aggregator
MSc Sumit Kumar Ram - data engineer
MSc Nianlong Gu - data scientist, machine learning expert
Further project members
Prof Marianne Hundt - Swiss national consortium CLARIN-CH (national coordinator) , professor of English Linguistics
Prof Elisabeth Stark - LiRI SWISSUbase project, LiRI SNSF R'Equip project, vice president research UZH, former LiRI project leader (8/2018-7/2021), professor of Romance Linguistics
Cooperation partners
S3IT / Service and Support for Science IT, Dr Marcel Riedi
UB / Main Library, Research Data, Dr Andrea Malits, MA Florian Steurer
SAGW, Dr Beat Immenhauser
Scientific Advisory Board
Prof Shanley E.M. Allen, TU Kaiserslautern, professor of Psycholinguistics and Language Development, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences TU Kaiserslautern
Prof Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, professor of natural language processing, co-director of Swedish Language Bank, national coordinator of SWE-CLARIN
Prof Anne-Lise Giraud, Université de Genève, professor of Auditory, Speech and Language Neuroscience, Geneva University Neurocenter, Auditory Language Group
Prof Stuart Rosen, University College London UCL, professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Alumni
2022 LiRI staff
Dr Sabine Güsewell - statistical consultant
2021 LiRI staff
Edward Anin - student assistant LIS team
Dr Elisa Pellegrino - lab experimental officer
BA Nick Sommerhalder - assistant lab
BA Zino Wellauer - assistant lab
2020 LiRI staff
MA Adrian van der Lek - assistant LIS team
MSc Ghazi Hachfi - assistant LIS team
Dr Lei He - lab manager
BA Xueying Liu - student assistant lab
MA Catherine Yoko Okaya - student assistant lab
BA Andrea Santos - student assistant lab
2019-2020 LiRI preparation phase, funded by URPP Language and Space and the Zurich Center for Linguistics
Dr Taras Zakharko - consultant LIS software development
PD Dr Gerold Schneider - consultant LIS software development
BA Stefan Vranković - LIS software engineer