Manuel Carreiras

Director

BCBL Director. Group Leader. Ikerbasque Research Professor.

Management: overall strategic and scientific management of BCBL.

Keywords: reading, bilingualism, visual word recognition, sentence processing, sign language, neurodegeneration of language.

Manuel Carreiras is the Scientific Director of the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastian), which has been awarded the "Severo Ochoa" Center of Excellence accreditation twice (2016-2019 and 2022-2026). He is also IKERBASQUE Research Professor, Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), and Distinguished Researcher of the the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His research focuses on reading, bilingualism and second language learning. He is the editor in chief of Frontiers in Language Sciences, and associated editor of Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience and of Brain and Language. He has published more than 300 articles in high-impact journals in the field. His research has been funded by different research agencies. He has been the Principal Investigator of the Consolider-Ingenio2010 project entitled COEDUCA, of the ERC (European Research Council) advanced grant entitled Bi-Literacy, of a Health Research 2018 La Caixa Foundation grant entitled DysThal, and a project funded by the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), among others. In 2024, he received his second ERC grant for the CORTICAL RHYTHMS project. He was awarded the Euskadi Research Prize in 2015 and the Spanish National Research Prize in Social Sciences, Pascual Madoz, in 2019.

 

Research group: Neurobiology of language

m.carreiras@bcbl.eu

+34 943 309 300