Resume
Professional Experience and Education
(detailed CV available upon request)
DECRA Fellowship, Western Sydney University
2023-2026
In January 2023 I started my project funded by the Australian Research Council entitled: Music and Speech as a Window into the Predictive Brain
Postdoctoral Researcher - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (Lyon, France) and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA).
2019 - Current
My postdoc investigated rhythmic priming from music to language in adults and children, working with Prof. Barbara Tillmann and Asst. Prof. Reyna Gordon. I was based in the Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team in Lyon, and was funded by an NIH grant awarded to Reyna Gordon (Chief Investigator) and Barbara Tillmann (Co-Investigator).
Postdoctoral Researcher - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (Lyon, France)
2017 -Â 2019
In my first postdoc position I investigated rhythmic priming from music to language both behaviourally and with electroencephalography, in adults and children. I was jointly affiliated with the Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics and the Dynamics of Language Teams at the University of Lyon 1 and 2 respectively.
PhD in Psychology - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
2014Â - 2017
My Phd thesis was entitled: The Nature of Syntactic Processing in Music and Language, completed under the supervision of Prof. William F. Thompson and Prof. Genevieve McArthur.
Master of Arts in Music, Mind, and Technology - University of Jyväskyä, Finland.
2012 - 2014
My Master's thesis was entitled: Effects of Musical Valence on the Cognitive Processing of Lyrics
Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
2008 - 2011
I completed my Bachelor of Psychology with first class Honours and a thesis entitled: Music and Language: Do they Draw on Similar Syntactic Working Memory Resources?