As of Fall 2024, I am an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC San Diego. 

Previously, I held postdoctoral fellowships at the Cognitive Development Center at Central European University in Budapest and at the Institut Jean Nicod & Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

I got my PhD in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, under the supervision of Valentine Hacquard & Jeffrey Lidz. I also worked with Alexander Williams and Meredith Rowe during my time at Maryland.

As a language acquisitionist, I aim to understand the different representations that children entertain as they move through stages of semantic and pragmatic development, as well as the learning mechanisms and experiences that propel them from one stage to the next.  My phenomena of interest have played central roles across linguistics and other disciplines of cognitive science, including: propositional attitudes and mental states; presupposition triggers and their relationship to logical operators; disjunction and reasoning about alternatives; thematic relations and event semantics. My research relies on behavioral experiments with children and adults, eye-gaze methods with infants, and corpus analyses of naturalistic speech, informed by insights drawn from the linguistic, psychological and philosophical literatures.