Aleksandra
Ćwiek

I’m an Assistant Professor in the Center for Language Evolution Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and also a member of NCU’s Institute of Advanced Studies. My research explores the nature and origins of linguistic iconicity, the multimodality of human communication, and the evolution of language.

I work with experimental and cross-linguistic methods – acoustics, motion capture, machine learning, and Bayesian modeling. Before Toruń, I was a Principal Investigator at the Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics in Berlin, and I completed my PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.