The Student/Postdoc Representative to the SNL Board position is open to all student and postdoc members of the Society. The Student/Postdoc Representative will be responsible for attending SNL meetings as well as all SNL board meetings, and SNL business meetings. As a full voting member of the SNL Board, the Student/Postdoc Representative will have input into all aspects of Society discussions. This is a two-year term commencing at the Board of Directors meeting at the SNL 2026 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
The position of Student/Postdoc Representative is particularly important, because the SNL Board is very interested in gaining the perspective of trainees in the field of the neurobiology of language. One of the Society’s goals is to foster a robust membership and leadership base to assist in securing and advancing the profession into the future. To further this goal, the Student/Postdoc Representative will raise issues that are salient to students and postdocs, as well as participate in the development of active student programming, both academic and social.