Dr. Andrea Weber

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Biography

Andrea Weber is a full professor in the Department of English at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, where she has been a faculty member since 2012. She conducts research in psycholinguistics and applied language studies, focusing on how the experience of language shapes the perception of spoken language. This includes investigating how listeners learn sounds and words in different languages and how they access the necessary language for use. She received her PhD from Radboud University in Nijmegen and has held postdoctoral fellowships at City University of New York and Saarland University. In 2007, she was awarded a W2 Minerva position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, allowing her to lead an independent research group. Weber's notable contributions to the field include her work on language processing, idiomatic comprehension, and the effects of native and non-native listener dynamics, significantly influencing current understanding in these areas. She has received several accolades, including the prestigious Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society in 2001.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2012-04-01 — Present

Eberhard Karls University Tübingen • Tübingen, Germany

Full-time professorship in the Department of English focusing on psycholinguistics.

Research Group Leader

2007-04-01 — 2012-03-31

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics • Nijmegen, Netherlands

Led an independent research group researching language comprehension.

Awards

#1

Otto Hahn Medal

2001-05-01

Courses

Introduction to Psycholinguistics Language and Cognition Advanced Studies in Language Processing