Claartje Levelt Professor at the Centre for Linguistics

Claartje Levelt is the head of the Lipsius location of the Babylab, and together with students from the Linguistics department she investigates how babies learn a language.

Szilvia Biro

Szilvia Biro is the head and scientific coordinator of the Pieter de la Court site for the Babylab. Dr. Biro investigates social-cognitive development of infants and works with students from the Institute of Psychology and from the Institute of Child and Education.

Sita ter Haar

Sita ter Haar is assistant professor at Child and Education Studies. She studies early language development in babies and is interested in both behavioural and brain development. In addition, she performs comparative research with animals, like songbirds where sounds are learnt in a comparable way to humans. For both lines of research she works together with students from Child and Education as well as from other institutes.

Teodora Cimpoesu Cimpoesu

Teodora Cimpoesu is a Master's Student in Applied Neuroscience in Human Development.

Natasja Delbar

Natasja Delbar is a PhD researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. After completing the research master in Linguistics, she is now researching speech production mechanisms in young children, and she is a part of the PerPLex project, which focuses on the relationship between speech production and speech perception in toddlers.

Asmaa Rouash Rouash

Asmaa Rouash is doing the master’s in Education and Child Studies, with a focus on Applied Neuroscience in Human Development.

Isabella Saccardi

Isabella is a senior Research Assistant and works on the implementation of our online study.

Pien Siekman

Pien Siekman is currently in her second year of her Research Master at the Institute for Education and Child Studies with a profile Applied Neuroscience in Human Development. Pien writes her thesis in the project 'Processing social information in infants’ brain'. 

Renske Urselmann

Renske Urselmann is a master's student in Education and Child Studies, specialising in Applied Neuroscience in Human Development.

Sarah van der Giessen

Sarah van der Giessen is a master's student in Education and Child Studies, specialising in Applied Neuroscience in Human Development.