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I am Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin) of Developmental Psycholinguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. The long-term goal of my research program is to understand which universal abilities influence language acquisition and how these abilities interact with experience, leading to variability or similarities in the language acquisition trajectory.  

My group focuses on the experimental study of early language acquisition, with a special focus on phonological and lexical acquisition. We pursue a comparative psycholinguistics approach, and compare infants learning different native languages, and infants growing up multilingually, and we study populations, for whom language development is atypical. We have a special interest in understudied languages and understudied populations. For this, we extend our lab-based methods (behavioral & ERPs) to the field (e.g., mobile eye-tracking), for example in collaboration with researchers at the University of Ghana, Legon. 

I am Associate Editor of the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 

I am Co-Director of the IDEALAB.