Hello! I’m Gal Rozic.
I was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where my interest in understanding how we think, learn, and relate to others led me to study Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires. This interest deepened during my work at Chicos.net, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting digital citizenship and the safe use of technology among children and adolescents in Latin America. There, I discovered the importance of education, socialisation, and the role of the environment in child development.
During my university studies, I lived in Israel, where I completed my BSc in Psychology and had my first experience with scientific research. It was also my first experience living in another language and culture, a context that further sparked my curiosity about language and, in particular, how we learn it in real-life situations: face-to-face, through interaction with others, gestures, eye contact, and shared actions. This fascination led me to work as a research assistant in different universities on projects combining neuroimaging, virtual reality, and behavioural paradigms to study communication and cognition across development.
Alongside my academic work, I have worked in industry as an AI conversation designer at Vonage–Ericsson, developing intelligent virtual agents using natural language technologies and generative models. This role integrated my interests in communication, technology, and applied cognitive science.
With a desire to specialise in language science and how children learn from and with others, I completed an MSc in Language Science (Language, Neuroscience and Communication) at University College London (UCL). There, I investigated the role of social and interactive context—including prosody and gestures—in children’s learning of new words. Currently based in London, I am a PhD student in the Ecological Brain DTP (UCL), studying how children learn new concepts through social interaction. I use behavioural methods, computational models, and hyperscanning techniques (simultaneous neuroimaging of two people) to identify the social coordination dynamics that facilitate learning. I am also a teaching assistant in Experimental Psychology, Development of Communication and Cognition, and Human–Computer Interaction.
I am especially excited to be part of the Wom=n Research & Equity committee at SRUK/CERU, where I hope to contribute to positive impact and collaborate with other researchers committed to equity in science.
