The Election is now open for four Councilor (board member) positions on the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) Board of Directors.
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Positions
Each year, four directors are elected: Chair-Elect, Treasurer-Elect, Secretary-Elect and Program Committee Chair-Elect. Directors are elected for a three-year term. Every two years, a Student/Postdoc Representative is elected to a two-year term. Responsibilities associated with all positions can be found in the bylaws.
The 2026 candidates were selected by an independent Nominating Committee from candidates nominated by SNL members.
Candidates
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Chair-Elect
Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario
Stephanie Forkel, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Treasurer-Elect
Jonathan R. Brennan, University of Michigan
William Graves, Rutgers University — Newark
Suhail Matar, University of Cambridge
Secretary-Elect
Yi Du, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Laura Gwilliams, Stanford University
Sahil Luthra, Stony Brook University
Program Committee Chair-Elect
Marc Joanisse, The University of Western Ontario
Bradford Mahon, Carnegie Mellon University
Simona Brambati, Université de Montréal
2026 Board of Directors
Chair: Beth Jefferies, University of York
Treasurer: Tyler Perrachione, Boston University
Secretary: Nai Ding, Zhejiang University
Program Committee Chair: Valentina Borghesani, Université de Genève
Student/Postdoc Rep: Ryan M.C. Law, University of Cambridge
Chair-Elect: Kate Watkins, University of Oxford
Treasurer-Elect: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, New York University
Secretary-Elect: Maria Ivanova, University of California, Berkeley
Program Committee Chair-Elect: Leonardo Fernandino, Medical College of Wisconsin
Past Chair: Jonathan Peelle, Northeastern University
Past Treasurer: Francesca Branzi, University of Liverpool
Past Secretary: Simona Mancini, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language
Past Program Committee Chair: Katrien Segaert, University of Birmingham
Past Student/Postdoc Rep: Xin Sun, University of British Columbia
