Education and work experience
| 2010 - | Research scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Language Comprehension Group, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. |
| 2007 - 2009 | Research scientist, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition (formerly Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. |
| 2005 - 2006 | Postdoctoral research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. |
| 2001 - 2005 | Ph.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. |
| 2003 | Marie Curie Fellowship, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, UK. |
| 1996 - 2000 | Dutch undergraduate degree (drs., equals MA) in Applied Linguistics, Nijmegen University, cum laude. |
| 1999 | International Student Exchange Program, University of South Carolina, USA. |
| 1995 - 1996 | Propaedeutics 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 |