Career
Coene studied Romance languages in Antwerp, Valladolid and Bucharest. She began her career as a teaching researcher at Ghent University. After her PhD, she continued her research in Antwerp and Paris, before coming to Leiden University through a VIDI project in 2005.
Since 2010, she has been a professor at VU Amsterdam. Her research moves between theoretical and applied linguistics. She studies fine grammatical differences between languages and focuses on language development in children with hearing impairments. As department head, she founded the Language and Hearing Centre Amsterdam and recently the Centre for Language and Development.
The new faculty
Coene argues that the linguistic focus makes her department complementary to the research and teaching within other disciplines of the new faculty. Her goal is to give young researchers space to develop and continue to educate them into critical thinkers, enabling them to contribute to understanding and addressing societal challenges.
