Bio
Hello, my name is Šárka Kadavá. Since October 2022,I have been working as a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics in Berlin. I am part of the FLESH project, which is lead by Dr Aleksandra Ćwiek, Dr Susanne Fuchs and Dr Wim Pouw and which falls under the DFG priority programme Visual Communication (ViCom).
The project aims to investigate how gesture and speech are jointly and flexibly coordinated.
In my research, I focus on how time-varying signals such as movement and sound contribute to creating and sharing a meaning.
I am currently also a PhD representative at my institute, Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics, together with Elna Haffner.
Previously, I studied at Charles University in Prague and obtained Master's degrees in Czech philology and Electronic culture and semiotics.
I also worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Under the supervision of Dr Nikola Paillereau, I was part of the team developing parent questionnaires (MB-CDI) for Czech children called Dovyko.
My research interests include multimodal communication, dynamical views of communication, and machine learning tools used to study communicative behaviour.