Career Development
I am currently an Associate Professor in Neurolinguistics at the University of Groningen. I received my postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Neurology). Before that, I worked as an Assistant Professor in Clinical Speech and Language Studies at Trinity College Dublin. I completed a PhD in neurolinguistics and cognitive neuroscience, under the IDEALAB scheme (Universities of Trento, Groningen, and Macquarie), and an MSc in clinical linguistics (European Masters in Clinical Linguistics).
I studied Speech and Language Therapy and specialized in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology. From 2007 to 2010, I worked as a Speech and Language Therapist at a neurorehabilitation center (Centro de Medicina Física e de Reabilitação do Sul, Portugal), assessing and treating patients with speech, language and swallowing deficits following brain damage. I hold professional qualifications as Speech and Language Pathologist from the the Portuguese Association of Speech Therapy (APTF) and the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists.
I am a member of the board of Science of Aphasia. I am also a member of the Posterior Fossa Society, the International Association for the Study of Child Language, the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, the Academy of Aphasia, and the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen. I was previously part of the management committee of the Collaboration of Aphasia trialists, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), and Portuguese Society of Speech Therapy (SPTF).