Dr. Eva Commissaire holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Lille, France and the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK (2012). Since 2013, she has been an assistant professor in psychology at the University of Strasbourg, France, and a member of the Laboratoire de Psychologie des Cognitions (LPC lab), where she has been heading the ‘Language and Learning’ team since 2022. Her main research interests fall within the field of psycholinguistics and developmental psychology. She mainly focuses on the learning and processing of written language (reading, spelling) in monolingual and bilingual children and adults. She has also conducted research into vocabulary learning in a second language as well as emotional processing in bilinguals. Over the last five years, she has supervised or co-supervised the doctoral theses of 6 students, 2 of whom are still in progress and 1 has just started. She has also participated as a member of several juries, around 20 per year at master's level and several at doctoral level (6 doctoral juries, including 2 abroad). She teaches courses in developmental psychology, from infants to the elderly, covering both cognitive and socio-emotional aspects, as well as the acquisition and processing of written language, school education and neurodevelopmental disorders, including learning disabilities. She is responsible for the first year of the Master’s degree in Developmental and Learning psychology at the University of Strasbourg.
She has participated in various funded research programs in France and has published around twenty papers in international scientific journals in the field of psychology. She is serving as a reviewer for several international scientific journals (e.g., Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Research in Reading, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, etc.). She has a several responsibilities at the University of Strasbourg, as a member of the Research Ethics Committee since 2018, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute of Language and Communication (entitled LiRIC since 2024, formerly FRLC since 2020). At national level in France, she has been a member of the psychologists committee of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research since 2023, which rules on foreign diplomas with a view to validating the title of psychologist, as well as a nominated member (as a substitute) of the National Universities Council (CNU) since 2023.
