Dr. Susanne Fuchs is Vice Director of the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) and Head of the Research Area 1 'Laboratory Phonology', At ZAS she also heads and coordinates the following projects:

• DFG project On the Flexibility and Stability of gesture-speech coordination: Evidence from production, comprehension, and imitation (FLESH)
• Subproject of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Conversational Brains (COBRA): Communicative alignment at the physiological level (together with Christine Mooshammer, HU Berlin)

The main focus of Susanne Fuchs' research are the biopsychosocial foundations of speech and language and their multimodal manifestations in human interactions. In more recent works, Susanne Fuchs is increasingly considering the situational context, such as simultaneous speech and movement, and she tries to apply her results to everyday situations. She follows theories of embodiment without losing sight of other approaches.