Current lab members
Shijun Yu (Iris)
Shijun Yu (Iris) is a PhD student who is interested in exploring the superior perspective-taking ability in bilingual children. Metalinguistic skill is believed to be one of the contributing factors. Her current research focuses on training monolingual children on metalinguistic skills to see whether this could help them to reach a similar level of perspective-taking skills as bilinguals.
Paulina Salgado Garcia
Paulina is a psychologist and a PhD student at Krott’s lab, who is interested in exploring mental health benefits of bilingualism. To achieve this, she applies a variety of individual differences and longitudinal analytical tools across her PhD project. She studies a range of child cohorts, focusing on bilingual children in primary school settings, focussing at their executive functions, cognitive-social skills and general wellbeing and comparing them to their monolingual peers.
Hanan Nasser
Hanan’s PhD research focuses on the language and cognitive developmental trajectories of bilingual preterm and full-term born infants. Preterm born infants are at an increased risk of delays in language and cognitive abilities, often facing challenges in areas such as attention, memory, and language skills. While some research suggests that bilingualism may hinder cognitive progress in very preterm children, other studies highlight its potential benefits. Hanan's research seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of the influencing factors and individual differences that shape early childhood development in bilingual preterm infants. Her research aims to produce research outcomes that not only contribute to the academic field but also have real-world implications which will be instrumental in shaping evidence-based interventions and support systems that meet the unique needs of infants born prematurely in bilingual environments, with an aim to link research, policy and practice.
Hangyan Yu
Hangyan Yu is a PhD student at Zhejiang University (China) and a visiting student in the lab. Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying second language acquisition and the differences between non-native and native speakers. Specifically, she investigates how linguistic complexity influences naturalistic language processing in both groups by examining their brain activation patterns.
Previous lab members
(PhD students and postdoctoral fellows)
Dr. Zlatomira Ilchovska, now postdoctoral researcher at York University
Dr. Yifan Wang
Dr. Felix Carter, now Research Associate at the University of Bristol.
Dr. Valeria Agostini, now teacher at a two-way immersion primary school in the U.K.
Dr. Cecilia Zuniga Montanez, now postdotoral research associate at the National Institute of Ecomonic and Social Research (NIESR)
Dr. Vincent DeLuca, now Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Dr. Asma Assaneea, now Assistant Professor at Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Zheni Goranova, now working as an Energy Analyst for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (UK government)
Dr. Isabella Fritz, now postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford
Dr. Beinan Zhou, was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, works now for private company in China
Dr. Simon Snape, now Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University Centre Shrewsbury
Dr. Riadh Lebib, now consultant at SBT Human(s) Matter
Dr. Helen Breadmore, now Professor at University of Birmingham