Board of Directors Election

2022 Board of Directors Election

The Election is now open for four Councilor (board member) positions on the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) Board of Directors.

To vote, Log In to your account and click “Vote in the 2022 Board of Directors Election.” You must be a current member to vote. If your membership is not current, you may renew it by clicking the “Renew” link on your account home page. If you do not have an SNL Account, please Create An Account.

Voting closes on August 8, 2022.

Positions

Each year, four directors are elected: Chair-Elect, Treasurer-Elect, Secretary-Elect and Program Committee Chair-Elect. Directors are elected for a three-year term. Every two years, a Student/Postdoc Representative is elected to a two-year term. Responsibilities associated with all positions can be found in the bylaws.

The 2022 candidates were selected by an independent Nominating Committee from candidates nominated by SNL members.

Candidates

Chair-Elect

Frederic Dick, Director, Birkbeck/UCL Centre for NeuroImaging (BUCNI) and Professor of Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, UK

Argye Elizabeth Hillis, MD, MA, Professor of Neurology and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Professor of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University

Sophie Scott, CBE, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Group leader of the Speech Communication laboratory

Treasurer-Elect

Eva Gutierrez-Sigut, Department of Psychology, University of Essex

Jeremy I Skipper, Experimental Psychology, University College London, UK

Secretary-Elect

Tali Bitan, Associate professor, Department of Psychology, Head of the Cognitive Science Dep, University of Haifa; Department of Speech Language Pathology, University of Toronto.

Daniela Sammler, Leader of the Research Group Neurocognition of Music and Language, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt/Main.

Program Committee Chair-Elect

William Matchin, Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina

Kristof Strijkers, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Aix-Marseille University (AMU); Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL – UMR 7309) & Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain (ILCB)

Current Board

Chair: Sharon Thompson-Schill, University of Pennsylvania
Treasurer: Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario
Secretary: Patrick Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Program Committee Chair: Michele T. Diaz, The Pennsylvania State University
Student/Postdoc Representative: Suhail Matar, New York University
Publication Officer: Matt Davis, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge

Chair-Elect: Liina Pylkkänen, New York University
Treasurer-Elect: Andrea E. Martin, Radboud University
Secretary-Elect: Yanchao Bi, Beijing Normal University
Program Committee Chair-Elect: Stephen M. Wilson, Vanderbilt University

Past Chair: Matt Lambon Ralph, University of Cambridge
Past Treasurer: Tamara Swaab, University of California, Davis
Past Secretary: Evelina (Ev) Fedorenko, MIT
Past Program Committee Chair: Carolyn McGettigan, University College London
Past Student/Postdoc Representative: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Harvard University