Marianne Gullberg

Marianne Gullberg is a Professor of Psycholinguistics at Lund University, where she serves as Director of the Lund University Humanities Lab and Director of Huminfra, Sweden's national infrastructure for humanities research. She leads the research programs TEAM (Transdisciplinary Approaches to Learning, Acquisition, Multilingualism) and LAMiNATE (Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Teaching), and previously co-founded the Nijmegen Gesture Centre at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

• Research Focus: Adult second language acquisition, bilingual processing, gesture production/comprehension, and multimodal communication.
• Leadership: President of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Vice-president of the European Second Language Association (2000-2007), and active in national and international academic societies.
• Honors:
  • 2019: European Second Language Association Distinguished Scholar Award
  • 2019: Swenson Prize in Humanities
  • 2014: Rausing Prize in Humanities
  • 2013: Wallenberg Scholar
  • 2010: Lars & Eva Gårding’s Prize in Linguistics
  • Multiple academy memberships including Academia Europaea and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Editorial Roles: Editor/Associate Editor for Language Learning, Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, Gesture, and others.