Stefanie Keulen obtained her master's degree (MA) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2013. She opted for the profile of language psychology and language pathologies in her final year and continued to pursue a PhD in the domain of neurolinguistics after obtaining her MA degree summa cum laude.
She defended her PhD entitled "Foreign Accent Syndrome: A Neurolinguistic Analysis" in 2017 at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (double-degree PhD).
In 2017, she obtained a grant from the Research Foundation Flanders (F.W.O.) to continue her post-doctoral research, and as of 2019 she is an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and now teaches Research Methodology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics.
In 2022 she was the recipient of the I. Vanderschueren Prize, awarded by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for the best PhD research in the Humanities, defended in the past 6 years.
Her research interests include Foreign Accent Syndrome, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, motor speech disorders in general, Primary Progressive Aphasia, and aphasia in general and she has a particular interest in bilingual populations.
Apart from carrying out her research, she also gives guest lectures (psycho- and neurolinguistics, research methodology in linguistics) and regularly gives talks at other universities in the context of courses, or postgraduate trainings as well as in the context of public outreach activities.
She is currently the chairwoman of the Brussels Centre for Language Studies.
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