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 experimental phonetics, acoustics and audition, psycholinguistics, and first and second language acquisition. I currently serve as Associate Editor for Language and Speech, and have just joined the Editorial Board of Cognitive Linguistics. When I am not working, I love going Modernist-façade-hunting in the city center, playing video games and reading fantasy and historical fiction.

News!!!

June 2026

Paper accepted in Applied Psycholinguistics. With Celia Gorba and Pilar Prieto. More info soon!

April 2026

Paper accepted in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. With Sara Fernández Santos, Patrick Rebuschat, Susana Correia and Padraig Monaghan. More info soon!

Chapter on experimental methods in multilingual phonetics/phonology research published in Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing (edited by Gabrielle Klaasen and John W. Schwieter). With Miquel Simonet. See here

March 2026

Invited talk at City University of Hong Kong as part of an Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Agreement

Guest lecture at City University of Hong Kong as part of an Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Agreement

February 2026

Organized the international workshop Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early and Late Bilingual Acquisition Research (IABAR) and gave an oral presentation there 

Invited talk at the VI Fonética Open Days (Salamanca, Spain)

Joined the Editorial Board of Cognitive Linguistics

Three co-authored abstracts accepted for EuroSLA 35 in Lisbon (Portugal): 2 oral presentations and 1 poster

One co-authored abstract accepted for LabPhon 20 in Montreal (Canada)

January 2026

Co-authored oral presentation at the Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World Conference (Reading, UK)

Paper published in Revista del Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària (CIDUI). With Carmen López Ferrero, Delfina Aliaga, Gemma Barberà, Judit Feliu, Sharon Gutiérrez, Elisabeth Miche, Carmen Pérez Vidal and Maria Wirf. Open Access, see here

November 2025

Paper published in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. With Panagiotis Kenanidis, Diana Pili-Moss and Ewa Dąbrowska. Open Access, see here

Appointed Guest Editor for Applied Psycholinguistics in charge of Special Issue "New Sounds, New Words: Toward an Integrated View of L2 Speech and Word Learning" together with Susana Correia and Patrick Rebuschat 

October 2025

Appointed Associate Editor for Language and Speech 

Awarded an Erasmus+ International Mobility Grant for a 7-day stay at City University of Hong Kong, hosted by Prof. Charles Chang

September 2025

Journal of Phonetics 2024 Early Career Best Paper Award for the article: "Lexically-guided perceptual recalibration from acoustically unambiguous input in second language learners". See announcement here. Paper available (Open Access) here

Paper published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. With Celia Gorba and Pilar Prieto. Open Acces, see here

Hosted Gil Verbeke (University of Ghent) for a graduate research stay at UPF (mid-August to end-October).