Viktor Leyn University of Chicago

Viktor (also known as Nina) Semuhina Leyn is an Associate Director of the Research Labs at the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. They study the effect of gesture on math learning (for children and adults, deaf and hearing), language acquisition, and numbers in sign languages. They hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Anthropogeny from the University of California, San Diego, and worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Susan Goldin-Meadow at the University of Chicago and Ruth B. Church at Northeastern Illinois University. In their free time, they write fiction, do cosplay or LARP, perform in theater, or study language acquisition in the wild.Viktor (also known as Nina) Semuhina Leyn is an Associate Director of the Research Labs at the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. They study the effect of gesture on math learning (for children and adults, deaf and hearing), language acquisition, and numbers in sign languages. They hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Anthropogeny from the University of California, San Diego, and worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Susan Goldin-Meadow at the University of Chicago and Ruth B. Church at Northeastern Illinois University. In their free time, they write fiction, do cosplay or LARP, perform in theater, or study language acquisition in the wild.