Welcome!

I am a Professor in the School of Psychology and affiliated with the Centre for Human Brain Health at the University of Birmingham. I am a psycholinguist who loves cognitive neuroscience, or a cognitive neuroscientist who loves language (depending on which day of the week you ask me). My research focuses on the neurobiology of language processing, with a special focus on how sentence-level processes and interactive communication are supported by the brain. I also study how the neurobiological infrastructure of language processing changes throughout the lifespan, and I research lifestyle factors that can mitigate language decline in older adults. My research is currently funded by BBSRC and The Leverhulme Trust.

I am an Editor-in-Chief for the journal Cognition, a key psychology journal that aims to publish papers that afford important theoretical advances in our field. I also serve on the Programme Committee for Society for Neurobiology of Language - our Society's next meeting will take place Sept 29-Oct 2 in Geneva. If you have questions or suggestions regarding the journal Cognition or The Society for Neurobiology of Language, please contact me. 

Before taking up my tenured position at the University of Birmingham, I was a staff researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. I received my PhD from the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and my Msc and Bsc in Psychology from the University of Leuven, Belgium.

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We are hiring! Come join our team as a research assistant on our BBSRC-funded project aimed at understanding how to optimize brain vascular health, cognition and language in older adults. We are ideally looking for someone who already has a CEP-UK accreditation or equivalent. Full job description here. Happy to answer questions - do get in touch with us. 

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Contact me: k.segaert[at]bham.ac.uk

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