People

Paola Bonifacci is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology. She leads the LADA Lab (Learning Disorders Assessment Laboratory) and the Clinical Service for Learning Disorders. Her research interests are referred to cognitive and learning processes in typical and atypical populations. 

A particular area of interest concerns the evaluation of literacy trajectories in bilingual populations and the development of diagnostic protocols for Developmental Language Disorder and Specific Learning Disorder in second language learners.

Orhan Agirdag (Ağırdağ) is an associate professor of educational sciences at KU Leuven and the University of Amsterdam, and a member of the Young Academy of Belgium. Formerly, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the UCLA. His research lab focuses on teacher education, early childhood education, multilingualism and educational technology. He is an author of more than hundred publications that are cited over 2600 times. His research has received multiple awards. Prof. dr. Orhan Agirdag has held grants by FWO, NWO and BOF and supervises several PhDs and postdocs. He is frequently invited to give keynotes speeches and his opinions are regularly featured in the Belgian and Dutch media.

Flavia Adani is Professor for Language Development at the Institute of Special Education at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. She is a psycholinguist andinvestigates how morpho-syntactic abilities develop in pre-school and school- aged children with and without developmental disorders and who are speakers of different languages including, German, Italian, English and, in collaboration with students and colleagues, also Hebrew, Catalan and Greek. Her recent work has also focused on multilingual children. Flavia has graduated at the Department of Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, while part of her dissertation project was also developed at University College London and University of California, Los Angeles. Before  moving to Germany, Flavia was a post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (EHESS-DEC-ENS-CNRS) in Paris. Between 2010-2018, Flavia held the chair for Developmental Language Disorders at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam and she was (co-) Principal Investigators in two language acquisition projects funded by the DFG (German Science Foundation).

Zofia Wodniecka-Chlipalska is a associate professor at Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University (Krakow). Her main research interest is bilingualism from cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective. She is currently investigating how short- and long-term exposure to a second language impacts native language processing and cognitive and brain functions.

Christina Cornelius is currently studying special education and biology at the Free University of Berlin (Germany) and is working as a student assistant in the TEBB team based in Berlin. 

Krystian Barzykowski is an assistant professor in cognitive experimental psychology in the Institute of Psychology at Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland). The main subjects of his scientific interests are: cultural psychology (with special focus on psychological aspects of forced and voluntary migration), psychological diagnosis and memory research. He is a professional multicultural trainer recommended and authorized by the Helsinki Human Right Foundation. He also co-authored the first polish book titled Psychological diagnosis of children in a multicultural and multilingual context. Since 2009 he is a member of the Board of the Polish Psychological Association: Krakow Division.

Hakan Dursun is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven. Previously he worked as a teacher and received his MA degree for his research on the impact of educational drama on foreign language anxiety. His research interests centre around multicultural teacher education, multilingualism, equity in education, and global citizenship education.

Andrea Mariane graduated in Psychology at the University of Bologna with a research thesis on learning disorders. He owns and runs a professional firm where he works in support of children with learning disorder. He is currently working on the TEBB project with a scholarship from the University of Bologna.

Anne Wels is currently studying special education and german studies at the Free University of Berlin (Germany) and is working as a student assistant in the TEBB team based in Berlin.