about

Nils F. Tolksdorf is a postdoctoral researcher at Paderborn University. His work focuses on children’s language development and learning with emerging digital technologies. Nils completed his Ph.D. with distinction as part of the Digital Society research program funded by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Katharina Rohlfing. His current research lies at the intersection of psycholinguistics and child-robot interaction, with a focus on language learning. He has experience in language acquisition research, with a particular focus on multimodality, cross-situational word learning, and pragmatics. In the area of social robotics, his experience focuses on dialogue design, ethical and child-oriented implementation of the technology, and how individual differences such as temperamental shyness influence children’s interactional and learning behavior with social robots.

Curriculum vitae

A recent CV can be downloaded here.