Sonja Kotz - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2005 - 2006 Leipzig University, GER; Habilitation in Psychology
  
• 1993 - 1996 Tufts University, USA; PhD in Psychology; summa cum laude; Dean’s award
  
• 1990 - 1992 Tufts University, USA; MSc in Psychology; summa cum laude
  
• 1981 - 1986 Tübingen University, GER; MA equivalent in Psycholinguistics, Political Sciences

• 09/2015 - Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dept. of Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Chair in Neuropsychology and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience
  
• 04/2012 - 08/2015 SPS, Manchester University, UK; Chair in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  
• 09/1996 - 03/2016 Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, GER; Senior Research Fellow then Research Professor
  
• 08/1987 - 08/1996 Dept. of German and Asian Languages, Tufts University, USA; Senior Lecturer
  
• 08/1986 - 07/1987 Faculty of Philology, University of Tübingen, GER; Research Associate

• 02/2024 Imera Chair (Fellowship), University Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France
  
• 10/2018 Honorary Professor, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
  
• 04/2019 Senior scientific exchange fellowship, University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
  
• 03/2015 EU Erasmus Mundus Research Fellowship Award
  
• 07/2007 Max Planck Minerva Award for outstanding female scientists

• Advisory Board Memberships: 2022 Institute de l'Audition Paris, France; 2022 Donders Institute for Brain Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
  
• President (2019-2020): Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL)
  
• President (2014-2018): European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN)
  
• Board Member (2010-2021): Neurobiology of Language (SNL), ESCAN
  
• Panel Chair (2008-2018): ERC- Synergy Grants (EU); ERC-Starter Grants (EU); panel member of several European grant agencies
  
• Editorial Boards: NeuroImage, Cortex, Neurobiology of Language; PLoS One, Frontiers in Emotion Science, Frontiers in
  
• Auditory Neuroscience, Frontiers in Language Science, Time and Time Perception Reviews.