Hui Chen is a Doctoral Candidate based at Bangor University within the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT network. She holds a European Master’s in Clinical Linguistics (EMCL+) and an MSc in Language Sciences (Neuroscience, Language and Communication) from University College London. She also holds bachelor’s degrees from the University of Manchester and Beijing Language and Culture University.

Her research interests lie in bilingualism, accent accommodation, and speech perception, with a particular focus on the neural mechanisms that support how people perceive and adapt to accented speech in social interaction. She is especially interested in combining behavioural and neurocognitive approaches to explore how language experience shapes communication