Vita






  • 2020/2021, Substitute Professor (W3)

Department für Linguistik, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Potsdam, Germany


  • Since 2019, Group Leader

Merge Computations, Department of Neuropsychology, MPI-CBS Leipzig, Germany


  • 2016-2019, Postdoc

Department of Neuropsychology, MPI-CBS Leipzig, Germany


Department of Neuropsychology, MPI-CBS Leipzig, Germany

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Department für Linguistik, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Potsdam, Germany


  • 2009, Master’s Degree in Linguistics

Discourse-Related Features and the Status of Right-Dislocation: A Cross-linguistic Perspective

(Summa cum Laude)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Luigi Rizzi, Prof. Dr. Adriana Belletti

Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Università di Siena, Italy


  • 2009, Internship

CISCL (Interdepartmental Center for Cognitive Studies of Language)

Università di Siena, Italy



  • 2006, Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences

Parametric Investigation in Comparative Syntax. A case study: Chinese Speakers Acquiring the Italian Relative Clause

(Summa cum Laude)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luigi Rizzi

Communication Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Università di Siena, Italy

Awards/Scholarships


Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany


Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Primary areas of expertise

Visual, auditory and signed language processing; Grammatical Theory; Functional/structural magnetic resonance imaging (s/fMRI); Lab/web-based methodologies for behavioral measures; Corpus Analysis; Language/motor interface; Frequentist statistics, Bayesian statistics



Secondary areas of expertise

Language evolution; Animal vocal communication; Semantics; phonology; Language acquisition; Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI); Electroencephalography (EEG)