Staff

Prof. dr. Antske Fokkens
Full Professor
Email: antske [dot] fokkens [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Stereotyping & Perspectives, Bias & Methodology, Digital Humanities, Grammar Engineering
Courses: Machine Learning for NLP, Text Mining for Digital Humanities and Social Science, NLP Technology

Prof. dr. Piek Vossen
Full Professor
Email: piek [dot] vossen [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: AI & Language, Computational Lexicon, Computational Semantics & Pragmatics, Event Extraction and Modelling, Linguistic Long Tail, Reference, Perspectives
Courses: Human Language Technology, (Applied) Text Mining, Communicative Robots, Computational Lexicon

Dr. Lisa Beinborn
Assistant Professor
Email: l [dot] beinborn [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Cognitively Inspired Language Processing, Multilingual Models, Semantic Shift, NLP for Educational Applications
Courses: Language as Data, Introduction to NLP, Advanced NLP

Dr. Hennie van der Vliet
Assistant Professor
Email: h [dot] d [dot] vander [dot] vliet [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: (Lexical) Semantics, Lexicology, Terminology, Term Extraction, Corpus Linguistics
Courses: BA:Introduction in Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Data Journalism
MA:Linguistic Research, Technical Translation, Advanced Linguistics

Dr. Pia Sommerauer
Assistant Professor
University Research Fellow 2016-2017
Email: pia [dot] sommerauer [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Distributional Semantics & Distributional Semantic Models, Model Interpretability, Concept Drift
Course: Python for Text Analysis

Dr. Ilia Markov
Assistant Professor
Email: i [dot] markov [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Hate Speech Detection, Opinion Mining, Authorship Analysis

Dr. Lucia Donatelli
Assistant Professor
Email: l [dot] e [dot] donatelli [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Formal Syntax and Semantics, Computational Semantics, (Situated & Multimodal) Dialogue, Semantic Parsing, Ethics & NLP
Course: Natural Language Processing

Dr. Luís de Passos Morgado da Costa
Assistant Professor
Email: l.g [dot] de.passos [dot] morgado.da.costa [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing; Educational Technology; Grammatical Error Detection; Computational Lexical Semantics; Syntactic and Semantic Parsing;  Digital Humanities; Chinese NLP
Course: Advanced NLP

Dr. Sophie Arnoult
Scientific Programmer
Email: sophie [dot] arnoult [at] vu [dot] nl
Research area: Machine Translation

Dr. Isa Maks
Assistant Professor
Email: isa [dot] maks [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas:

Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Lexical Resources
Courses: BA: Text mining for Digital Humanities and Social Science, Data Journalism MA: Subjectivity mining, Digital Humanities

Postdocs

Dr. Angel Daza
Postdoc
Email: j [dot] a [dot] dazaarevalo [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Sentence Semantics, Multilingual Models
Course: Python for Text Analysis, Advanced NLP

Thomas Baier, PhD
Postdoc
Email: t [dot] baier [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Communicative Robotics, Affective Computing, AI & Language
Course: Communicative Robots

Dr.des. Enrica Troiano
Postdoc
Email: e [dot] troiano [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Emotion Analysis, Cognitive Modeling, Evaluation of Language Technologies, Perspectivist Data Annotation, Subjectivity in Text

PhDs

Levi Remijnse, MSc
PhD Student
Email: l [dot] remijnse [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Dutch Linguistics, Frame Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Computational Semantics and Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax

Chantal van Son, MA
PhD Student
University Research Fellow 2014-2015
Email: c [dot] m [dot] van [dot] son [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Digital Humanities, Subjectivity Mining, Perspectives, Factuality, Negation, Focus, Information Structure

Selene Báez Santamaría, MSc
PhD Student
University Research Fellow 2017-2018
Email: s [dot] baezsantamaría [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Conversational AI, Knowledge Representation, Communicative robotics

Lea Krause, MSc
PhD Student
Email: l [dot] krause [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation and Evaluation, Knowledge Representation, Ethics in NLP

Jaap Kruijt, MSc
PhD Student
Email: j [dot] m [dot] kruijt [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Communicative robotics, affective computing, semantics and pragmatics

Myrthe Reuver, MA MSc
PhD Student
Email: m [dot] e [dot] reuver [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: (Applied) Natural Language Processing, Language models, NLP in Recommender Systems, Diversity in Recommender Systems, Ethics in NLP

Baran Barbarestani, MSc
PhD student
Email: b [dot] barbarestani [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Toxic language detection, Text mining, Deep learning, Explainability

Urja Khurana, MSc
PhD student
Email: u [dot] khurana [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Deep/Machine Learning, Explainable and Generalizable AI, Generative Models, Computer Vision

Stefan Schouten, MSc
PhD Student
Email: s [dot] f [dot] schouten [at] vu  [dot] nl
Research areas:  Deep / Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction, Explainability

Wende Tufa, MSc
PhD student
Email: w [dot] t [dot] tufa [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Evaluation of Cross-Lingual and Contextual Language Models, Transfer Learning

Stella Verkijk, MA
PhD Student
Email: s [dot] verkijk [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas:  Natural Language Processing, Event Extraction and Modelling, Ontology Engineering, Language Models, Domain Adaptation

Jonathan Kamp, MA
PhD student
Email: j [dot] b [dot] kamp [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Interpretability in Natural Language Processing, Robustness Testing and Evaluation, Argument Mining, Legal Argumentation

Nina Schneidermann, MSc
Guest PhD Student
Email: n [dot] skovgaard [dot] schneidermann [at] vu  [dot] nl
Research areas:  Figurative Language Processing, Hyperbole Detection, Linguistic Meaning Representations, Frames

Michiel van der Meer, MSc
PhD student
Email: m [dot] t [dot] van [dot] der [dot] meer [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Hybrid Intelligence, Language Models, Argument Mining

• Dr. Roser Morante Vallejo, Researcher, – May 2022
• Lieke Gelderloos, Lecturer, March 2021 – August 2021
• Marten Postma, PhD student and post-doctoral researcher, January 2014 – May 2021
• Minh Le, PhD student, 2014 – May 2021
• Filip Ilievski, PhD student, September 2014 – October 2019
• Bram Kraaijeveld, Student assistant, September 2017 – November 2019
• Suzana Bašić, University Research Fellow 2018 – 2019
• Lenka Bajčetić, University Research Fellow 2017 – 2018 & Spinoza project, September 2017 – September 2019
• Johan Rebel, Researcher, April 2018 – May 2019
• Roxane Segers, Researcher, – August 2018
• Emiel van Miltenburg, PhD student, September 2014 – July 2018
• Selene Kolman, Project Manager, April 2014 – April 2018
• Paul Huygen, Scientific Programmer
• Pia Sommerauer, University Research Fellow 2016 – 2017
• Tommaso Caselli, Senior Researcher, September 2014 – September 2017
• Marieke van Erp, Researcher, March 2013 – September 2017
• Agata Cybulska, PhD student, 2009 – December 2016
• Soufyan Belkaïd, University Research Fellow 2015 – 2016
• Dr. Rubén Izquierdo Beviá, Senior Researcher, September 2011 – September 2016
• Alessandro Lopopolo, MA, PhD student, September 2014 – February 2016
• Anneleen Schoen MA, Researcher, February 2014 – December 2015
• Attila Görög, Researcher, September 2009 – December 2013
• Veronica Benigno, PhD of the University of Palermo, Sicily, May – November 2011
• Egoitz Laparra, PhD of the Basque University, Spain, April – June 2011
• Francesco Ronzano, PhD of University of Pisa, Italy, May – December 2010