EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2026-2028 |
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PRESIDENT
E-mail: kopeckov [ at ] uni-muenster.de ROMANA KOPECKOVA is a research associate and senior lecturer at the University of Münster, Germany. Her main research areas include age-related differences in second and third language acquisition, phonetics and phonology, and pluralistic teaching approaches. She has recently co-authored Phonetics and Phonology in Multilingual Language Development (2023, Elements in Phonetics, CUP). |
| PAST PRESIDENT E-mail: g.j.poarch [ at ] rug.nl
GREG POARCH is
Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Culture
of the University of Groningen. He studied in Darmstadt and has held
various positions as researcher and lecturer in Frankfurt, Toronto,
Tübingen, and Münster. His research interests cover psycholinguistic,
cognitive, and social aspects of multilingualism (cross-linguistic
interaction and cognitive control in multilinguals, the multilingual
mental lexicon, and the implications of societal multilingualism for
language education). His son Loïc grew up with three languages (Dutch,
English, & German). |
| VICE-PRESIDENT E-mail: anna.m.krulatz [ at ] ntnu.no |
| SECRETARY ANNA SKALBA is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw. She obtained her PhD in 2025 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She has contributed to several research projects involving international collaboration, especially with Norway. Her main research areas include syntactic processing in bilinguals and multilinguals, second and third language acquisition, cross-linguistic influence, and cognitive functions. |
| TREASURER E-mail: nighting [ at ] uji.es RICHARD NIGHTINGALE is Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, where he teaches sociolinguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is also co-director of the English Language Teaching and Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts (MELACOM) MA programme. Richard has published research on topics relating to sociolinguistics, multilingualism, pragmatics, and affective/contextual factors, and has presented his work at numerous international conferences. |
| MEMBER AT LARGE E-mail: eliane.lorenz [ at ] anglistik.uni-giessen.de ELIANE LORENZ is a senior researcher and lecturer at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. In addition, she is an affiliated researcher at NTNU, Norway, as part of the project The Acquisition of English in the Multilingual Classroom. She completed her PhD in English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg in 2019. Her research interests include second and third language acquisition, crosslinguistic influence, heritage bilingualism, learner corpus research, and contrastive linguistics. She is author of the monograph Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Bilingual heritages speakers in Germany (2022, Routledge) and co-edited the Special Issue Learning and teaching of English in the multilingual classroom: English teachers’ perspectives, practices, and purposes (2022, Languages). |
MEMBER AT LARGE – CO-OPTED MEMBER (2024 IAM Conference)
E-mail: f.gastmann [ at ] lmu.de
FREYA GASTMANN is currently pursuing a joint PhD degree at the Department of German Linguistics at LMU Munich and the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen. She obtained an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and an M.Ed. for German and English at the University of Münster. Her research areas span psycholinguistics, cognitive effects of multilingualism, and cross-linguistic influences in multilingual language processing in both children and adults.
| MEMBER AT LARGE – CO-OPTED MEMBER (2026 IAM Conference) E-mail: magdala [ at ] amu.edu.pl MAGDALENA WREMBEL is professor of English linguistics at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her main research areas involve bilingualism and multilingualism, third language acquisition, phonetics and phonology, and language awareness. She has published extensively in edited collections and journals and co-organised a number of international conferences. She has been actively involved in several international projects (as PI), with funding from Polish, Norwegian and German research agencies. She has served at scientific committees and was the president of Societas Linguistica Europaea. She is currently the head of Bilingualism Matters@Poznań. |
| MEMBER AT LARGE – CO-OPTED MEMBER (2028 IAM Conference) E-mail: oihana.leonet [ at ] ehu.eus Oihana Leonet is an Associate Professor of Educational Sciences at the University of the Basque Country-EHU. She is the Principal Investigator of the Donostia Research Group on Education and Multilingualism (DREAM). She has led and participated in numerous international and national research projects and has published her work in international journals and books. Her research focuses on multilingualism and education, with a particular emphasis on multilingual pedagogies, metalinguistic awareness, and the role of minority languages in educational contexts. |
