prof. dr. B.A.M. (Ben) Maassen

Ben Maassen, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Speech-Language-Literacy Disorders & Clinical Neuropsychologist at the University of Groningen (Center for Language and Cognition), and the University Medical Center Groningen (Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN)), and is affiliated to the Department of Rehabilitation, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen.

Main research areas are [1] Speech: neurogenic speech disorders, in particular childhood apraxia of speech; perception-production modelling in speech development and speech disorders; speech-related cognitive dysfunctions; Parkinson’s disease and [2] Reading: dyslexia and neurocognitive precursors, with focus on neurophysiological assessment and digital game-based learning.

He is chair of the International Conference on Speech Motor Control (Nijmegen 2001, 2006; Groningen 2011, 2017, 2022); former member and chair of the Motor Speech Disorders Committee of the International Association for Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP); editor-in-chief of the Dutch journal of voice, speech, and language pathology (Tijdschrift voor Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie), and member of the editorial board of several international journals.

He has a background in cognitive neuropsychology and speech-language pathology. Previous affiliations: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; Donders Institute for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen; Department of Child Neurology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen.