Paul Boersma

Paulus Petrus Gerardus "Paul" Boersma is professor of phonetic sciences at the University of Amsterdam. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between phonology and phonetics. Together with David Weenink, he has developed the speech signal processing program Praat, which has become widely used.
Boersma finished a doctoral degree with distinction from the University of Amsterdam with the title Functional Phonology. In 2005, he became a professor of phonetics at the University of Amsterdam. Since February 2022, Boersma has been the director of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics.