It is an honor to officially kickoff the 4-year, 1.05 mill. Euro research project in applied biosemiotics: Motor Health and Semiotic Function in the Kinesthetic Expressivity of Neurodegenerative Disease (MASKED) funded by the Horizon Europe / Marie Sklodowska-Curie Staff Exchange (MSCA-SE).  

Brian Khumalo, L’udmila Lacková Bennett, and Nicola Zengiaro give an introductory lecture about the MASKED project to the students and the professors in the Department of General Linguistics at Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic on December 4, 2025.  

Nicola Zengiaro‘s secondment to Palacký University Olomouc in Olomouc, the Czech Republic focused on advancing research within Work Package 2 of the MASKED project. He leveraged his specialized expertise as a biosemiotician to bridge the gap between semiotic theory and the clinical study of facial hypomimia. During this period, Zengiaro initiated the preliminary development of...