About me
This picture shows me carrying a mobile EEG lab for a study on Äiwoo in Solomon Islands.
I am a language scientist carrying out research interfacing the cognitive and developmental neuroscience of language and linguistic diversity.
My main research interests are (in no particular order):
the interaction of language processing and the grammatical structure of languages,
the interaction between language and event cognition (especially semantic roles),
incremental sentence production and comprehension processes, their neural implementation, and their development throughout childhood,
language processing and interactive language use.
Currently, I work at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, where I lead the research area "Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience of Language" within the research unit "Developmental Psychology: Infancy and Childhood". I am funded by a SNSF Ambizione grant.
I am a member of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution and I am an associate investigator in the National Center for Competence in Research "Evolving Language".
I have been named a National Geographic Explorer by the National Geographic Society and received an Otto Hahn medal for my dissertation from the Max Planck Society in "appreciation of outstanding scientific achievements" in the psycholinguistic study of under-researched languages.
On Mastodon you find me under @sebastiansauppe@sciences.social, on Blue Sky you find me under sebastiansauppe.bsky.social. You can also find me on ResearchGate, ORCID ID and Publons. Alternative metrics for the impact of my work can be found on Dimensions.ai. My academic genealogy can be found on Academic Tree.