Jakob Scherm Eikner is starting a PhD this month at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL). Jakob holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of Oslo. Jakob works with Elin Runnqvist (LPL) and Clément François (LPL), in collaboration with Kristof Strijkers (LPL), studying self-monitoring mechanisms in speech production and other human actions. The PhD project investigates whether neural mechanisms of self-monitoring are shared across different levels of speech production (from motor to conceptual) and across action domains (linguistic and non-linguistic). This work should inform models of speech production and our understanding of the relation between language and motor systems. 

Greta Gorzoni is starting a PhD at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) this month, supervised by Laurent Prévot and Francesca Di Garbo. Greta holds a Master’s degree in Linguistic Sciences from the University of Bologna, where she specialized in linguistic theory and computational methods. Her PhD project investigates linguistic abstraction and generalization, focusing on how linguistic patterns are represented at different levels of abstraction in language models and how these representations can generalize across languages. The theoretical framework combines Construction Grammar Theory, linguistic typology and computational approaches to language models.

Mia Steffen began her PhD in cognitive science at Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) in September 2026. Mia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Université Lumière Lyon 2 and a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science from Aix-Marseille University. Her doctoral research is part of the ERC-funded Language in the Dyad (LaDy) project under the supervision of Dr. Kristof Strijkers (LPL). The project investigates the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human language interaction. More specifically, her research explores whether predictive processing may drive both linguistic and neural alignment during naturalistic conversation.