About
Kathy Huet is a Professor at the University of Mons (UMONS), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, where she heads the Metrology and Language Sciences Department since October 2021. She also serves as Secretary of the Academic Council of UMONS and holds several other significant administrative positions including President of the Bachelor's Programs Commission and President of the juries for the Master in Psychological Sciences and Educational Sciences.
Professor Huet's research focuses on the interdisciplinary field of speech science, with particular expertise in voice quality, speech production and perception, clinical phonetics, and oral language pathology. Her background in physical sciences provides a strong foundation for applying quantitative methods to language research. She is affiliated with the Phonetics Laboratory of the Metrology and Language Sciences Service, where she has been working since 1998.
Her teaching responsibilities span both research methodology and language sciences. In methodology, she teaches measurement and evaluation in human sciences, advanced statistics, and multidimensional statistical analyses. In language sciences, her courses cover acoustics, digital speech signal processing, phonetics, and clinical phonetics. She was specifically designated as lecturer for 'Multidimensional Analyses' in 2009.
- Professor since 2021
- Head of Metrology and Language Sciences Department since October 2021
- Secretary of the Academic Council of UMONS
- President of the Bachelor's Programs Commission
- President of the juries for Master in Psychological Sciences and Educational Sciences
Professor Huet earned her Licenciée en sciences physiques (equivalent to a Master's degree in physical sciences) from UMH (University of Mons-Hainaut) in 1991. She conducted research at the Elementary Particle Physics Service in collaboration with CERN, defending her PhD in sciences in 1997. She joined UMONS in 1998 and has progressively advanced through academic ranks to become a Professor in 2021.
