Šárka Kadavá is a doctoral researcher in the DFG project On the FLExibility and Stability of gesture-speecH coordination (FLESH): Evidence from production, comprehension, and imitation /  Research Area 1 'Laboratory Phonology'.

Her research focuses on multimodality, on how different modalities contribute to the sharing of meaning and how they are coordinated with each other, and on how language-like structural features emerge in non-normative communication systems. She has also participated in a project developing Czech adaptation of MB-CDI at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences.