If you are interested in working under my supervision, please check our MA and Ph.D. programs, or the Juan de la Cierva / Beatriu de Pinós / Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral grants. 

 

Postdoctoral Supervisor:

  • Emanuele Casani, Juan de la Cierva 2023 postdoctoral fellowship (JDC2022049732-I, 2024-2026). Project: “Italian in the multilingual Catalonia: the effects of literacy”. 
  • Núria de Rocafiguera Muntanyà. Postdoctoral work (Sept. 2025 – August 2026), on the HERITAGE Project, on Catalan as a heritage language in the French context after the Spanish Civil War.

Current doctoral students at UPF:

  • Lara Culev: "The acquisition of Italian clitics by heritage speakers in Catalonia". Expected defense: February 2027. Funding: ALLENCAM SGR / Dept. of Translation and Language Sciences (UPF).
  • Silla Paneghel (Ca’Foscari / UPF): “The Acquisition of Passive Sentences in Italian and Catalan children”. Co-tutela with Francesca Volpato. Expected Completion: December, 2027. Funding: Ca’Foscari University.
  • Laura Núñez Quesada (UPF): “El desenvolupament del llenguatge i la cognició en infants de 3 a 8 anys: l’adquisició de la semàntica de les còpules del català” Expected Completion: August, 2028. Funding: FI Joan Oró (AGAUR)
  • Iarina Albu (UPF). “Heritage vs. L2 Acquisition of Spanish Copulas: Evidence from Romanian. Expected Completion: March 2030. Funding: FPI, project COPULA (AEI)

Past supervisions:

  • Ana Espíritu Santo (co-supervised with Nélia Maria Pedro Alexandre, Universidade Nova de Lisboa): “The Acquisition relative clauses in L2 Portuguese by Mandarin L1 learners”. Defense date: May 17th, 2022.
  • Ewelina Barski: “The OPC in Polish and Spanish heritage speakers living in Canada”. Completion Date: August 23rd, 2013. Placement: Tenure-Track at SUNY-Brockport.
  • Diana Botero: “The Role of Semantics in Second Language Acquisition and Spanish Heritage Speakers: The Case of Past Counterfactuals. Completion Date: March 18th, 2016.
  • Itziri Moreno: “Clitic mapping in Spanish-P’urhépecha bilinguals”, Defense Date: June 21st, 2018. Placement: Lecturer at University of Washington, Tacoma.
  • Adriana Soto: “Variability in clitic expression in Catalan language”, Completion Date: June 28th, 2018. Placement: Post-Doc at University of Alberta (Johanne Paradis’ Lab). Assistant Professor Serra Húnter at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.