Yiya Chen

Yiya Chen is a Professor of Phonetics at Leiden University's Department of Linguistics. She has held multiple academic roles since 2001, including Full Professor (2020–2003), Associate Professor (2015–2002), and Research Fellow positions at Leiden University (2007–2011), Radboud University Nijmegen (2007–2010), and the University of Edinburgh (2004–2010).

• Key research areas: Dialectology, Laboratory phonology, Prosodic typology, Experimental phonetics, Sino-Tibetan languages, and Bilingualism.

She has received several prestigious grants, including the NWO VICI grant (2020), ERC Starting grant (2008), NWO VIDI grant (2008), and NWO VENI grant (2004). Her work focuses on the intersection of phonetics, typology, and linguistics.