She started at UWS in January 2011, after a research position at the University of Amsterdam from 2005 to 2010 and a Visiting Assistant Professorship at the University of California in Los Angeles. She has been visiting researcher at the UCLA Baby Lab since 2009 and was Visiting Professor at the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Centre at the University of Amsterdam from 2011 to 2014. Currently, she is the MARCS Internship Coordinator and chairs the Teaching and Learning Committee at MARCS. She is sole CI of an ARC Discovery Project (2013-2015) examining speaker and accent normalization in human infants and adults and in zebra finches. In 2010 she received the Heineken Young Scientists Award for Cognitive Science and in 2014 the Vice Chancellor’s Excellence in Research (Researcher of the Year) award at UWS.