{"id":24,"date":"2021-06-03T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:36:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>My research focuses on the cognitive and genetic underpinnings of language, speech, musicality, and related traits.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">I'm a linguist with an interdisciplinary research background in linguistics, cognitive neuroscience and genetics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"> I am currently Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Iceland and chair the university's Linguistics program. I was previously a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Research Scientist at deCODE Genetics for over a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Education: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">PhD Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Netherlands (advisor Stephen Levinson)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">MSc Computational Linguistics and Formal Grammar, King's College London, UK (advisor Ruth Kempson)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">BA Linguistics, Macalester College, USA (advisor John Haiman)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research focuses on the cognitive and genetic underpinnings of language, speech, musicality, and related traits. I'm a linguist with an interdisciplinary research&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rosas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}