Jacek Kudera

Dr. Jacek Kudera is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Phonetics at the University of Trier, coordinator of the LODinG project at the Trier Center for Digital Humanities, and adjunct faculty at WSB Merito University in Wrocław. His work bridges phonetics, Slavic linguistics, digital humanities, and forensic speech science.

Education

• 2022 – PhD, Department of Language Science and Technology, Saarland University, Germany
• 2019 – MA (Linguistics), Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2015 – Magister (Slavic Philology), Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland

Research Interests

His research focuses on phonetic and prosodic aspects of Slavic languages, cross-linguistic speech perception, forensic automatic speaker recognition, and human-robot interaction. He employs experimental methods such as eye-tracking, articulatory measurements (EMA), and large-scale digital corpora to investigate how speakers of closely related languages understand one another and how machines can replicate or support this process.

Publication Trends

Across more than 25 peer-reviewed articles (2014-2025), Kudera has consistently explored Slavic intercomprehension, speech technology evaluation, and digital humanities infrastructure. Recent work (2024-2025) targets voice cloning security, linked open data for linguistics, and mismatch conditions in forensic speaker recognition.

Scientific Awards & Fellowships

• Visegrad Fellowship, University of Presov (2025)
• Erasmus+ Fellowships (Ostrava 2025, Zagreb 2014, Rijeka 2012-2013)
• NAWA Fellowship, Polish Academy of Sciences (2022)
• Nordlys Fellowship, University of Eastern Finland (2018-2019)
• CEEPUS & additional Central-European mobility grants (2014-2018)

Projects & Funding

• Coordinator: “Mismatch conditions in machine speaker identification” (University of Trier Research Fund, 2024-2025)
• Coordinator: LODinG – Linked Open Data in the Humanities (Trier Center for Digital Humanities, ongoing)
• Coordinator: “Patterns: Linguistic Creativity and Variation” (Trier Center for Language and Communication, 2022-2024)
• Member: SFB 1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding” (Saarland University, DFG, 2019-2022)
• Member: Digital Atlas of Dialects of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2017-2018)
• Member: CLARIN-PL & European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures (2014-2017)

Labs & Teams

He conducts research within the Phonetics Team at the University of Trier, collaborates closely with the Trier Center for Digital Humanities, and maintains affiliations with the Phonetics Group at Saarland University and the WSB Merito University in Wrocław.