Education
2006 - 2010
Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
2004 - 2006
M.Sc in Cognitive Science: Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 - 2004
B.A. in Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
199 - 2001
I.B. United World College of the Adriatic, Duino, Italy
Academic Positions
2025 - Present
Principal Investigator at the University of Potsdam BabyLab, Germany. Leading the Volkswagen Foundation-funded project "Precursors to the Language of Thought in Preverbal Infants." Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Mireia Marimon (LMU Munich).
2019 - 2025
Postdoctoral fellow at the Cognitive Sciences Unit, University of Potsdam, Germany. DFG funded SFB “Limits on Variability in Language”.PIs: Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle and Prof. Adamantios Gafos.
2017 - 2019
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science Unit, University of Potsdam, Germany. Project "RHYTHMSYNC"
2010-2016
Postdoctoral fellow at the Language, Cognition and Development Laboratory at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. ERC funded project "PASCAL: Processing Activates Specific Constraints for Language Acquisition". PIs: Jacques Mehler and Marina Nespor
2006-2010
Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marina Nespor
Research Stays
2011
Laboratory of Animal Cognition, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
2011
Department of Psychology, Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milan Italy
2009
Department of Western Languages, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
2008
Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN - Center for Brain Science, Tokyo, Japan
2005 – 2006
EEG Laboratory of Jos van Berkum, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands