I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Ethan Kutlu in the Speech, Signs, and Systems Lab, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa. My research focuses on individual differences in speech perception, particularly gradiency (i.e., sensitivity to subphonemic differences) and consistency (i.e., the stability of cue-to-category mapping). My current work investigates how these individual differences change longitudinally as adults learn a second language.

I received my Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from BCBL, where I conducted my doctoral research under the supervision of Efthymia Kapnoula and Arthur Samuel in the Spoken Language Group at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastián, Spain. My doctoral research examined the malleability and functional roles of individual differences in speech perception gradiency and consistency. Before joining BCBL, I earned my undergraduate and M.Phil. degrees in Psychology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where I conducted EEG research on neural adaptation and mismatch negativity in typical readers and children with dyslexia under the guidance of Urs Maurer.

I am broadly interested in bilingualism and language processing across different modalities, with a particular focus on speech perception and reading.