I am a Research Fellow in psycholinguistics at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University. Until December 2022, I was a postdoctoral research fellow in spoken-language processing in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (based at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development). From 2016 to 2018, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Child Language Lab and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, at Macquarie University’s Department of Linguistics.

I hold a PhD in psycholinguistics from Western Sydney University, as well as an MA (Language & Speech Technology) and a BA (Language, Speech & Computer Science) from Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Feel free to download a copy of my doctoral dissertation, which investigates the flexibility of first and second language speech processing in Dutch emigrants in Australia. 

My main research interest is spoken-language processing. Among other things, I am interested in how spoken-word recognition is affected by factors such as bilingualism, hearing loss, and ageing. I investigate this using behavioural experimental techniques, as well as eye-tracking and pupillometry.