I am a 'Beatriz Galindo' Research Fellow and Tenure-Track (i.e., Assistant) Professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where I teach courses on linguistics and advanced English grammar and am an active member of the research group ALLENCAM (Language Acquisition from Multilingual Catalonia). Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Language and Cognition of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and a predoctoral researcher at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing of the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU), where I received my PhD in 2019. I also hold an M. A. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Arizona. My research interests are quite cross-disciplinary, spanning areas such as experimental phonetics, acoustics and audition, psycholinguistics, and first and second language acquisition. When I am not working, I love getting lost in the streets of Barcelona, spending time with my family, exercising, and reading fantasy and historical fiction.

News!!!

March 2024

Awarded a Language Learning Early Career Research grant for my proposal 'Connecting phonetic training and word learning in L2 speech'. Funding period: 06/2024 - 12/2025
Four abstracts accepted for EuroSLA33. Three oral presentations and one poster (Montpellier, July 2024)
Oral presentation at joint seminar of the Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group and the Language Acquisition from Multilingual Catalonia Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

February 2024

Invited oral presentation at Lancaster University Phonetics Lab

January 2024

Paper published in Language and Cognition. With Ewa Dąbrowska. Open Access, see here

December 2023

Paper published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. With Tim Laméris and Brechtje Post. Open Access, see here
Participation in the Nova Lisbon & Lancaster Winter Retreat (in Lisbon) as invited discussant

November 2023

Invited oral presentation at the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language (Speech and Bilingualism Research Group)

September 2023

Paper published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Open Access, see here
Co-authored oral presentation at CogDev Conference (organized by the British Psychological Society; Bristol, UK)
Co-authored oral presentation at the 3rd International DLD Research Conference (online event)