About me

Basic information

• Croatian
• a wife, a sister, a daughter, an aunt, a friend and an assistant professor
• enjoys research, music, books, cycling, yoga, travel

Current roles

• assistant professor (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences)
• Fulbright scholar (Temple University, Philadelphia, 2024/2025)
• co-lead of the Laboratory for Psycholinguistic Research, University of Zagreb
• vice-chair of the COST Action CA21131: Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research; MultiplEYE
• collaborator of the Concepts and Cognition Laboratory, Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Temple Unversity

Research interests and methods used in research

• developmental and acquired language disorders
• psycholinguistics (language development and processing across the lifespan)
• eye-tracking, corpus studies, neuropsychological testing etc.

Work experience

• 11/07/2024-today: Assistant professor: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Speech Language Pathology (SLP)
• 20/10/2020-10/07/2024: Postdoctoral research fellow: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of SLP
• 20/10/2016–20/10/2020: PhD, Croatian Science Foundation (CSF) Grant: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of SLP
• 06/2016–09/2017: PhD, Research collaborator: ‘Adult Language Processing’ (Grant CSF-2421)
• 01/11/2014–21/02/2015: Research assistant, project ‘Prerequisites for academic equality: early recognition of language disorders’ (IPA, 2013-2015): University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of SLP

Education

• 20/01/2017–06/05/2020: PhD (summa cum laude): ‘Psycholinguistic approach to structural-semantic factors in processing relative clauses’: Doctoral studies in Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
• 16/10/2012–09/09/2014: M.Sci. (summa cum laude): University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of SLP
• 22/09/2009–15/09/2012: Bacc. (summa cum laude): University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of SLP
• 01/09/2005–19/05/2009: Highschool education: II. gymnasium, Zagreb (Croatia)