Vitor Lacerda Siqueira

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ABOUT VITOR LACERDA SIQUEIRA

I am a second-year PhD student in Linguistics at New York University (NYU), specializing in phonetics, phonology, language documentation, and sociolinguistics. I am also a visiting researcher at the Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR), where I conduct fieldwork and research on Indigenous Amazonian languages.I hold a B.A. with honors in Linguistics from Pitzer College, where I was advised by Dr. Carmen Fought. As an undergraduate, I collaborated with Dr. Kathryn Franich at Harvard University’s Phonetics and Phonology Lab, researching co-speech gestures in Niger-Congo languages—specifically Medʉmba, Babanki, and Igbo—and assisting with Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) data collections. I also completed an exchange program at Korea University () in South Korea.Beyond research, I have extensive teaching experience. At NYU, I have served as a Teaching Assistant for the course “Language in Latin America,” taught by Dr. Gregory Guy, and \"Language and Mind,\" taught by Dr. Alec Marantz and Dr. Noga Zaslavsky. I am currently a TA for \"Phonological Analysis,\" working with Dr. Maria Gouskova. Previously, I worked as a Teaching Assistant for 12 courses in the Portuguese program at Pitzer College and Claremont McKenna College. Additionally, I have experience in talent attraction and recruitment at Fundação Estudar. Born in Mutum, a small town in Minas Gerais, Brazil, I have always been passionate about science. My interdisciplinary journey includes winning over 30 national and international awards in the fields of Linguistics, Physics, Astronomy & astronautics, Mathematics, Robotics, Geography, and Chemistry. I also discovered asteroid 2022 ON32 as part of an IASC/NASA and MCTI project and conducted astrophysics research in the Czech Republic.