Carmen Pietropaolo

COMMUNICATION AND KTT OFFICER

Carmen (Carmela) Pietropaolo earned her Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics and Quantitative Linguistics at the University of Freiburg with a grant awarded by the German Research Foundation and was a fellow at the graduate school 1624 “Frequency effects in language”. Her research focused on computational models of language learning and rule formation. She completed her post-doc at the University of Düsseldorf where she became scientific coordinator and PI for a cross-functional project on the structure and representation of thought in language funded by the German Research Foundation (SFB 991). She organized international conferences, workshops, seminars and training courses, led the development of experiment platforms and data analysis tools and coached PhD students in statistical analysis and visual display of behavioral data.

She coordinated research projects with cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams in the fields of cognitive science, (neuro-)linguistics, psychology and computer science, wrote research proposals and successful applications for public funding. She taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in empirical linguistics, statistics for linguists and language acquisition among other topics.

She has a deep passion for knowledge and technology transfer and worked together with the Gründerbüro and the Foundersclub e.V. of the University of Freiburg to organize and promote projects that bring together stakeholders from the academic and corporate domains in order to accelerate technological innovation and the transfer of research technology into the market (KTUR EUCOR, Exist Grant, SPARK, among others).

In this capacity she currently works for NCCR Spin at the University of Basel where she coordinates Young Researchers’ Education Programs and the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Program.