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
Program: Gipuzkoa Next 2022, FA OF 94/2022
Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
10/2022- 10/2023
Funding: 148.440 €
PI: Ruzzoli M.
co-PI: Molinaro N.
collaborators: Paz-Alonso; Carreiras
Program: PID2021-122918OB-I00
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
09/2022- 08/2025
Funding: 199.408 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team members: Ram Frost & Amaia Carrion
Program: PROYE20005CARR
Funding agency: Fundación AECC
12/2020- 11/2023
Funding: 300.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team Member: Ileana Quiñones
Program: HR18-00178
Funding agency: Fundación La Caixa
12/2019- 11/2022
Funding: 500.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: RTI2018-093547-B-I00
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2019- 12/2021
Funding: 169.400 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Co-PI: Ileana Quiñones
Program: Convocatoria de Proyectos de Investigación en Neurociencia 2018
Funding agency: Tatiana Peréz de Gúzman el Bueno
01/2019- 12/2021
Funding: 47.850 €
PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso
Co-PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: ERC-2017-PoC-787487
Funding agency: European Commission
10/2018- 09/2019
Funding: 150.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: BCS-1749143
Funding agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
06/2018- 11/2021
Funding: 61.830 €
PI: Alison Gabriele
Co-PI: Manuel Carreiras , Lesa Hoffman, Robert Fiorentino
Program: BERC 2018-2021
Funding agency: Basque Government
01/2018- 12/2021
Funding: 5.420.493 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: BFU2016-81721-RED
Funding agency: MINECO- Ministerio de Economía y Competitivad
06/2017- 05/2019
Funding: 120.000 €
Luis Serrano, Centre for Genomic Regulation
Program: PSI2016-81881-REDT
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
06/2017- 05/2018
Funding: 20.000 €
Carles Soriano, IDIBELL Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute.
Program: KK-2017/00103
Funding agency: Basque Government
03/2017- 12/2018
Funding: 56.570 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: FSED_2_2016_1_131230
Funding agency: Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII), Uruguay
01/2017- 12/2017
Funding: 26.286 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: SEV-2015-0490
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2016- 01/2019
Funding: 4.000.000 €
PI: Prof. Manuel Carreiras
Guarantors: Arthur Samuel, David Soto, Clara D. Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Mari Cruz Rodriguez-Oroz, Marie Lallier, Kepa Paz-Alonso, Doug Davidson, Simona Mancini & Loretxu Bergouignan
Program: FSED_2_2015_1_120770
Funding agency: Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII), Uruguay
01/2016- 12/2016
Funding: 27.937 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: PSI2015-67353-R
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2016- 12/2018
Funding: 108.900 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: APCIN-2015-061
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
12/2015- 11/2018
Funding: 279.510 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: FP7-SSH-2013-1-613465
Funding agency: European Commission (7PM)
03/2014- 02/2019
Funding: 245.430 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras at BCBL
Team members: Clara Martin, Nicola Molinaro & Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Program: BERC 2014-2017
Funding agency: Basque Government
01/2014- 12/2017
Funding: 6.801.601 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: NPRP 6-378-5-035
Funding agency: Quatar Foundation
01/2014- 03/2017
Funding: 260.549 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: BERC 2013
Funding agency: Basque Government
01/2013- 12/2013
Funding: 1.450.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: PSI2012-31448
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2013- 12/2015
Funding: 128.700 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: European Research Council (ERC), ERC-2011-ADG_295362
Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
04/2012- 04/2017
Funding: 2.487.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team members: Clara D. Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Pedro M. Paz-Alonso, Jon A. Duñabeitia, Sendy Caffarra, Brendan Costello
Program: Gaitek, LangMind
Funding agency: Basque Government
01/2012- 12/2014
Funding: 52.920 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team members: Kepa Paz-Alonso & Nicola Molinaro
Program: DRAVET
Funding agency: Dravet Foundation
07/2011- 06/2013
Funding: 200.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: 09-RNP-089
Funding agency: European Science Foundation
05/2011- 04/2015
Funding: 565.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Coordinator: Vito Pirrelli
Program: RED 2011, EXP.103/11
Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
09/2010- 08/2012
Funding: 90.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: PSI2009-08889
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2010- 12/2012
Funding: 298.505 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: PITN-GA-2009-237907
Funding agency: European Commission (7PM)
10/2009- 10/2013
Funding: 353.933 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
EU coordinators: Sabine Sczesny & Lisa Irmen
Program: PSI2008-04016-E/PSIC
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
06/2009- 06/2011
Funding: 180.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: BERC 2009-2012
Funding agency: Basque Government
01/2009- 12/2012
Funding: 13.844.007 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Program: Cognicion y Educacion (COEDUCA), CSD2008-00048
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
12/2008- 12/2013
Funding: 4.000.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team members: Clara Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Marie Lallier, Kepa Paz-Alonso & Simona Mancini
Program: HUM2007-30271-E
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
11/2008- 11/2010
Funding: 207.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras