Lab Managers and Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Stanislav Mulík

Postdoctoral Scholar and Lab Manager

Stan is a language and food enthusiast from Slovakia with Hungarian heritage. He has lived and worked in Czechia, Spain, Mexico, and the United States. In December 2021, Stan earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Autonomous University of Queretaro (Mexico) after conducting research with heritage speakers of Otomi, an Indigenous language spoken in central Mexico. He previously did a one-year-long postdoctoral stay at the Faculty of Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Stan's main career interest is research in the fields of linguistics and cognitive neuroscience. 

As a linguist, he specialises in the study of bilingualism from the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic perspectives, especially at the level of phonetics, phonology, and lexical learning and processing. He is specifically interested in understanding the underlying cognitive mechanisms for language in heritage speakers and other bilinguals, as well as studying the differences between their first and second language(s). In my language research, he has integrated experimental approaches ranging from the acoustic analysis of bilingual speech production to behavioural and electrophysiological measures of bilingual speech perception and lexical processing, namely eye-tracking and electroencephalography. 

In addition to M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics, in 2007 he obtained his M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Brno University of Technology (Czechia). Due to his interest in gastronomy, during his stay in Mexico, Stan also collaborated on various research projects related to Mexican culinary products.    

✉️ Email: stanmulik@psu.edu

📍Office: 032 Burrowes

🌐 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/stanmulik/home 

Lucy Taylor

Postbaccalaureate Fellow and Lab Manager

Lucy is a recent graduate of Penn State, with degrees in Integrative Science and Spanish. She joined the BrainTracking Lab in the fall of 2022 as an undergraduate research assistant. Through her work in the lab, Lucy was awarded a PIRE fellowship and traveled to Granada, Spain in the summer of 2023 to collect data on a pupillometry study investigating native Spanish speakers' understanding of dual-gendered nouns, like el agua. 

In addition to her fascination with language acquisition and language processing, Lucy is passionate about medicine and improving healthcare delivery, especially for historically marginalized communities. She is an aspiring physician, hoping to blend her experiences with languages and bilingualism with medicine. She's particularly interested in investigating how patient experience is affected by the use of interpreters. She is working in the BrainTracking Lab full time as a Post-baccalaureate fellow and lab manager, until April 2026, while she applies to medical schools.

✉️ Email: lvt5255@psu.edu 

📍Office: 032 Burrowes

Former Lab Managers and Postdoctoral Scholars