Educational Activities Committee

Jessica Ramos Sanchez

Jessica is from Mexico. She studied the Erasmus++ Master in Clinical Linguistics as a joint degree between the University of Groningen, Potsdam University, and the University of Eastern Finland. She worked for two years as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, on a project related to speech perception in children with dyslexia. She joined the BabyBRAIN Lab at Donders Institute in 2021 to start her Ph.D. project on active learning and curiosity in typically developing infants and children with autism. In her free time, she enjoys doing long-distance swimming, dancing, writing stories, and participating in activities that support diversity and inclusion in academia and the arts.

E-mail: Jessica.Ramos-sanchez@donders.ru.nl

Lucy Spoliar

Lucy is from the UK. After studying for her BA in Theology and Religious Studies with International Studies in Durham (UK) and Melbourne (Australia), Lucy moved to the Netherlands where she completed a Research Master in Religion and Culture at the University of Groningen in August 2020. She worked in Groningen for another year as a research assistant building an online educational program on Religion, Gender and Sexual Health, before moving to Nijmegen in October 2021 to start her PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies (Radboud University). Her research focuses on representations of Jewish and Muslim women in British comedy entertainment. In her free time, she enjoys going for hikes, playing board games and watching movies with friends.

E-mail: Lucy.Spoliar@ru.nl

Daniel Ostkamp

Daniel is from Germany. In 2020 he completed his master in Software Engineering at the Open Universiteit, at that time living in Groningen and working there for an IT-consultant company. Then, in April 2021 he started working as scientific programmer and PhD candidate at the Radboud University, and consequently moved to Nijmegen one month later. Currently, he works at the iHub department, and is member of the Encryption4All team which has as goal to develop an easy-to-use e-mail encryption system. In his free time, he enjoys doing sports (gym, tennis, running, hiking), writing software, playing board or computer games, and watching series or movies.

E-mail: Daniel.ostkamp@ru.nl

Claire Zhang

Claire obtained her bachelor and master in psychology in Beijing, China. Her research was in psycholinguistics, specifically in how human brains process Chinese characters writing. She moved to the Netherlands in 2021, and started her PhD in cognitive neuroscience. Her current research is on the topic of how choices help people to learn better. She loves doing sports, so she goes to the gym, swims, and does pole dancing regularly. In her free time, she also parties with friends, goes traveling quite often, and goes to festivals for good music.

E-mail: Claire.zhang@donders.ru.nl

Xinyu Zhang

Xinyu is from China. After completing two Master’s degrees from the University of Amsterdam, she moved to Nijmegen in 2021 for her PhD at Radboud University, where she is also a member of the International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences. Her research is in phonetics and psycholinguistics. More specifically, she studies the relationship between speech production and speech perception and how the two processes affect each other, by looking at both typical and clinical populations. When she’s not doing phonetics, Xinyu enjoys playing boardgames, bouldering, hiking, doing origami, and playing with her cat Mochi.

E-mail: Xinyu.zhang@ru.nl