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Portrait of a young woman with shoulder-length dark blonde hair, wearing a dark blue blouseA linguist and developmental scientist by training, I’m currently a scientific project manager and science communicator at the University of Göttingen, Germany.

From 2020 until 2022, I was a postdoc at the Baby & Child Research Center in Nijmegen, Netherlands, with a focus on outreach and science communication.

In 2021, I completed my PhD at the University of Göttingen, Germany. In my PhD, I investigated why children learn the words they do. My research focused on the interplay of existing semantic knowledge and category curiosity in novel word learning.

This website contains information about my projects, publications and presentations. If you want to know more, please get in touch via e-mail (lenaackermann[at]gmx.net).