Manuel CarreirasManagement: overall strategic and scientific management of BCBL.
Keywords: reading, bilingualism, visual word recognition, sentence processing, sign language, neurodegeneration of language.
Manuel Carreiras is the Scientific Director of the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastian), which has been awarded the "Severo Ochoa" Center of Excellence accreditation twice (2016-2019 and 2022-2026). He is also IKERBASQUE Research Professor, Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), and Distinguished Researcher of the the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His research focuses on reading, bilingualism and second language learning. He is the editor in chief of Frontiers in Language Sciences, and associated editor of Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience and of Brain and Language. He has published more than 300 articles in high-impact journals in the field. His research has been funded by different research agencies. He has been the Principal Investigator of the Consolider-Ingenio2010 project entitled COEDUCA, of the ERC (European Research Council) advanced grant entitled Bi-Literacy, of a Health Research 2018 La Caixa Foundation grant entitled DysThal, and a project funded by the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), among others. In 2024, he received his second ERC grant for the CORTICAL RHYTHMS project. He was awarded the Euskadi Research Prize in 2015 and the Spanish National Research Prize in Social Sciences, Pascual Madoz, in 2019.
Research group: Neurobiology of language
                Program: Plan Nacional 2024, PID2024-159134OB-I00
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                09/2025-                        08/2029
                        Funding: 163.750 €
                        PI:Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: ERC-2023-ADG–101140427
                Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
                01/2025-                        12/2029
                        Funding: 2.500.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: Gipuzkoa Next 2022, 2022-CIEN-000029-01
                Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa 
                10/2022-                        10/2023
                        Funding: 148.440 €
                        PI: Manuela Ruzzoli
co-PI: Nicola Molinaro
collaborators: Kepa Paz-Alonso & Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: PID2021-122918OB-I00
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                09/2022-                        08/2025
                        Funding: 199.408 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team members: Ram Frost & Amaia Carrion                
                Program: CEX2020-001010-S
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                01/2022-                        12/2025
                        Funding: 4.000.000 €
                        PI: Prof. Manuel Carreiras
Guarantors: Pedro M. Paz-Alonso, Cesar Caballero-Gaudes, Brendan Costello, Marina Kalashnikova, Marie Lallier, Nicola Molinaro, Carmen Vidaurre, Arthur G. Samuel, Clara Martin, & Efthymia Kapnoula.                
                Program: PROYE20005CARR
                Funding agency: Fundación AECC
                12/2020-                        11/2023
                        Funding: 300.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team Member: Ileana Quiñones                
                Program: HR18-00178
                Funding agency: Fundación La Caixa
                12/2019-                        11/2022
                        Funding: 500.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: RTI2018-093547-B-I00
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                01/2019-                        12/2021
                        Funding: 169.400 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras
Co-PI: Ileana Quiñones                
                Program: Convocatoria de Proyectos de Investigación en Neurociencia 2018
                Funding agency: Tatiana Peréz de Gúzman el Bueno
                01/2019-                        12/2021
                        Funding: 47.850 €
                        PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso
Co-PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: ERC-2017-PoC-787487
                Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
                10/2018-                        09/2019
                        Funding: 150.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: BCS-1749143
                Funding agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
                06/2018-                        11/2021
                        Funding: 61.830 €
                        PI: Alison Gabriele 
Co-PI: Manuel Carreiras , Lesa Hoffman, Robert Fiorentino                
                Program: FY2019-008-M5
                Funding agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
                06/2018-                        05/2024
                        Funding: 61.500 €
                        Leader PI at University of Kansas Center for Research Inc.: Alison Gabriele
PI at BCBL: Manuel Carreiras 
Team member at BCBL: Simona Mancini                
                Program: BERC 2018-2021
                Funding agency: Basque Government
                01/2018-                        12/2021
                        Funding: 5.420.493 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: PSI2016-81881-REDT
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                06/2017-                        05/2018
                        Funding: 20.000 €
                        Carles Soriano, IDIBELL Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute.                 
                Program: KK-2017/00103
                Funding agency: Basque Government
                03/2017-                        12/2018
                        Funding: 56.570 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: FSED_2_2016_1_131230
                Funding agency: Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII), Uruguay
                01/2017-                        12/2017
                        Funding: 26.286 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: PSI2015-67353-R
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                01/2016-                        12/2018
                        Funding: 108.900 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: FSED_2_2015_1_120770
                Funding agency: Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII), Uruguay
                01/2016-                        12/2016
                        Funding: 27.937 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: SEV-2015-0490
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                01/2016-                        12/2019
                        Funding: 4.000.000 €
                        PI: Prof. Manuel Carreiras 
Guarantors: Arthur Samuel, David Soto, Clara D. Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Mari Cruz Rodriguez-Oroz, Marie Lallier, Kepa Paz-Alonso, Doug Davidson, Simona Mancini & Loretxu Bergouignan                
                Program: APCIN-2015-061
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                12/2015-                        11/2018
                        Funding: 279.510 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: FP7-SSH-2013-1-613465
                Funding agency: European Commission (7PM)
                03/2014-                        02/2019
                        Funding: 245.430 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras at BCBL
Team members: Clara Martin, Nicola Molinaro & Jon Andoni Duñabeitia                
                Program: BERC 2014-2017
                Funding agency: Basque Government
                01/2014-                        12/2017
                        Funding: 6.801.601 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: NPRP 6-378-5-035
                Funding agency: Quatar Foundation
                01/2014-                        03/2017
                        Funding: 260.549 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: BERC 2013
                Funding agency: Basque Government
                01/2013-                        12/2013
                        Funding: 1.450.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: PSI2012-31448
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                01/2013-                        12/2015
                        Funding: 128.700 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: European Research Council (ERC), ERC-2011-ADG_295362
                Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council) 
                04/2012-                        04/2017
                        Funding: 2.487.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team members: Clara D. Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Pedro M. Paz-Alonso, Jon A. Duñabeitia, Sendy Caffarra, Brendan Costello                
                Program: Gaitek, LangMind
                Funding agency: Basque Government
                01/2012-                        12/2014
                        Funding: 52.920 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team members: Kepa Paz-Alonso & Nicola Molinaro                
                Program: DRAVET
                Funding agency: Dravet Foundation
                07/2011-                        06/2013
                        Funding: 200.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: 09-RNP-089
                Funding agency: European Science Foundation
                05/2011-                        04/2015
                        Funding: 565.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras 
Coordinator: Vito Pirrelli                
                Program: RED 2011, EXP.103/11
                Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
                09/2010-                        08/2012
                        Funding: 90.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: PSI2009-08889
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                01/2010-                        12/2012
                        Funding: 298.505 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: PITN-GA-2009-237907
                Funding agency: European Commission (7PM)
                10/2009-                        10/2013
                        Funding: 353.933 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras 
EU coordinators: Sabine Sczesny & Lisa Irmen                
                Program: PSI2008-04016-E/PSIC
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                06/2009-                        06/2011
                        Funding: 180.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: BERC 2009-2012
                Funding agency: Basque Government
                01/2009-                        12/2012
                        Funding: 13.844.007 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                
                Program: Cognicion y Educacion (COEDUCA), CSD2008-00048
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                12/2008-                        12/2013
                        Funding: 4.000.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras
Team members: Clara Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Marie Lallier, Kepa Paz-Alonso & Simona Mancini                
                Program: HUM2007-30271-E
                Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
                11/2008-                        11/2010
                        Funding: 207.000 €
                        PI: Manuel Carreiras                








