About

At UMass Amherst, I was part of the Cognitive Science of Language lab, under the direction of Dr. Brian Dillon. As a research assistant, I was responsible, along with other RAs, for recruiting participants and running experiments in the Eye Tracking Lab, mainly working within the Visual World Paradigm framework. 

In my last year, I worked with Brian and Dr. Jon Burnsky on  a study investigating the underlying mechanisms of Principle B in sentence processing (obviation versus blocking) using nonce words.

At the University of Oxford, I was supervised by Dr. E. Matthew Husband. My master's research centered around seeking to understand how parsers recover from prediction failure, building on a study done at UCL . 

During the summer of 2021, after a 12 month postponement due to Covid-19, I was an intern at the Lab for Developmental Studies at Harvard University. A part of Professor Jesse Snedeker's lab, I was mentored by Dr. Anthony Yacovone.

A fluent speaker of Czech and French, I am especially keen to use Czech in my future research, making the most of its morphosyntactic richness. I am also looking to minor in Computational Science during my PhD, looking to build atop skills acquired during my undergraduate studies in mathematics and the skills mainly learned through doing my own independent research. 

Outside of psycholinguistics, I like to row - at UMass, I was a student-athlete for all of my four years. At Oxford, I was part of the Oxford University Women's Boat Club, racing in the 7 seat of the OUWBC Reserve Boat in the 2023 Boat Race against Cambridge. Additionally, I enjoy cycling, reading and going on long walks, preferably with my family's Italian Greyhound, Fabi.