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Dr Rasmus Puggaard-Rode

Official Fellow

Associate Professor of Phonetics

Faculty of Linguistics

PhD Leiden, MA, BA Aarhus

Rasmus Puggaard-Rode is Associate Professor of Phonetics, the study of the sounds of human speech, affiliated with the Phonetics Laboratory at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics. His research combines corpus and experimental methods to untangle the many ways in which systematic and categorical differences between the sounds of language can be realized in running speech, and what this means for our understanding of the structure of language. This work involves working with both well-described Nordic languages and under-resourced languages of south-east Asia and Australia. He also works on developing general-purpose tools and pipelines for processing, analysing, and visualizing speech data.

Rasmus holds a PhD in linguistics (2023) from Leiden University, and Bachelor’s (2016) and Master’s (2018) degrees in Linguistics from Aarhus University. During his doctoral studies, he also had brief stints as departmental lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Before coming to Oxford, he worked as a research scientist in the Spoken Language Processing group at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.