Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. rer. nat. Jutta L. Mueller
Professorship for Psycholinguistics at the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
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Curriculum Vitae:
born 1974 in Donauwörth
1995-2001 Studied psychology at the University of Trier
2001 Diploma in Psychology at the University of Trier
2002-2005 PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2005 Doctorate at the University of Leipzig
2005-2007 Ernst Rudolf Schloessmann Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2007 Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute for Longevity Sciences, Obu, Japan
2008-2009 Research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
2010-2013 Head of a project of the German Research Foundation (DFG, own position) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2013-2020 Junior Professor at the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück
2017-2020 (Co-)PI on several projects of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on various aspects of language processing, language development and rule learning at the University of Osnabrück
since September 2020 Professor of Psycholinguistics at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Vienna
Research areas:
* Neurophysiological processes associated with language acquisition across the lifespan
* Neurocognition of language acquisition in early childhood
* Interaction of language and non-linguistic cognitive processes, e.g. memory and cognitive control
* Phylogenesis of language learning processes
"Understanding language is an important building block for answering the question of who we are." (Jutta L. Mueller)