ERC Grantee: Judit Gervain

… Then I got one of these “Ah-ah” moments! 

Judit Gervain is a Full Professor at the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology. She is PI of an ERC Consolidator Grant on language acquisition (BabyRythm). 

ERC Grantee: Judit Gervain

“The idea of the research grant, which is on babies’ prenatal experience, is something I’ve been thinking for a really long time, maybe 4-5 years before I actually got the Grant. But the ideas were not coming together, I had something vague in my mind but it was not very clear. Then I got one of these “Ah-ah” moments under the shower one morning. I was like “that’s the question!  Now I know!”. From then on it was really easy to design experiments and set up a research programme”. 

Judit has 3 post docs (Jessica Gemignani, Irene de la Cruz Pavia, Anna Martinez Alvarez) and one PhD student (Caroline Nallet) in her research team. 

“Working with Judit is great” Jessica, a biomedical engineer by training, reports. “For me the most important part was finding a good supervisor because that’s the best way to learn, basically”. 

Watch the whole interview with Judit’s research group.

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