Dr. Bob van Tiel was a senior researcher in the DFG project MUQTASP - Modelling the Use of Quantifiers in Typical and Atypical Speakers Probabilistically / Research Area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics'.
He investigates how people understand information that is not explicitly communicated, such as conversational implicatures and presuppositions. To that end, he carries out experiments on sentence processing in typical and autistic people.