Madison, Wisconsin, 1998 (photo: Rudmer Canjels)

• My Amsterdam office has moved:
  
  Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
  Visiting Address: Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, NL, room C3.123
  Postal Address: P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, NL
• The submission deadline for the Evolution of Language conference (Evolang 8), which I coorganize, has now passed.

I am a researcher in the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam (since 2004; currently on a VENI-fellowship, 2007-2011). In the past, I have worked in the Behavioural Biology group at Leiden University in the Netherlands (2007-2008), and the Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit and the Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology (now the Institute of Evolutionary Biology) of the University of Edinburgh (2002-2004) in Scotland, where I worked on a PhD thesis on "The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language". Before that, I was a research assistant at the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium (2000-2002), where I worked on the project "Origins of Language and Meaning", briefly at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory - Paris in France (2000), and in the Theoretical Biology group of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands (1998-1999).