About me

I am a cognitive (neuro)scientist studying how languages are structured, processed and represented in the human brain. I am particularly interested in the combinatorial properties of language – how complex meanings emerge from the structural combination of smaller linguistic units. In my research I use a variety of experimental methods, varying from state-of-the art neuroimaging analyses to old-school armchair linguistics.

I am a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, working with David Poeppel. Current projects are about the role of prosody in syntactic structure building, the neural representation of morphological relations, and the conceptual relationship between linguistics and neuroscience.

Before moving to New York, I was a postdoc at the Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen (the Netherlands). I got my PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, under the supervision of Peter Hagoort, Andrea E. Martin, and Helen de Hoop. My dissertation – Triangles in the brain – can be read here.