Education and work experience

2010 - Research scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Language Comprehension Group, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
2007 - 2009Research scientist, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition (formerly Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
2005 - 2006Postdoctoral research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
2001 - 2005Ph.D. student, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, under supervision of Prof. Anne Cutler. Title dissertation: ‘Phonetic and lexical processing in a second language’. Doctoral degree in Social Sciences from Radboud University Nijmegen awarded December 20, 2005.
2003Marie Curie Fellowship, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, UK.
1996 - 2000Dutch undergraduate degree (drs., equals MA) in Applied Linguistics, Nijmegen University, cum laude.
1999International Student Exchange Program, University of South Carolina, USA.
1995 - 1996Propaedeutics in Arabic, Nijmegen University.

Reviewing

Member of the Board of Consulting Editors of The International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL).

Occasional reviewer for:

Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech)
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Brain and Language
Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
John Benjamins
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Journal of Phonetics
Journal of Social and Ecological Boundaries
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies
Linguistics in the Netherlands
Speech Communication
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics/OTS Yearbook