ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Oct 2020 – present
Post-doctoral Researcher
Brain and Language Lab (http://www.brainandlanguagelab.org)
Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences & Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology & Vienna Cognitive Science Hub
University of Vienna, Austria
On maternity leave between December 2020 and October 2021.
Dec 2017 – Sep 2020
Post-doctoral Researcher
Hoeft Laboratory for Educational Neuroscience (http://www.brainLENS.org)
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco & Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, United States
NWO Rubicon Laurate with the project: Bilingualism under linguistic scrutiny. Do different languages shape the brain differently?
Apr – Oct 2017
Post-doctoral Researcher
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, the Netherlands
Sep 2012 – Apr 2017
PhD Candidate in Experimental Neurolinguistics
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, the Netherlands
PhD Thesis: The Neurobiology of Individual Differences in Grammar Learning
Promotor: Prof. Dr Niels O. Schiller
Co-promotor: Dr Johanneke Caspers
Sep 2010 – Feb 2011
Instructor
Faculty of Letters, Department of Dutch Philology, Wrocław University, Poland
EDUCATION
Sep 2011– Aug 2012
Master of Arts in Advanced Studies in Linguistics (Greatest distinction)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Multilingual and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Programme
Thesis: Second Language Aptitude. Exploratory experimental and neurolinguistic study.
Oct 2010 – Jun 2011
Postgraduate Studies in English Translation
Wrocław University, Poland
Sep 2009 – Aug 2010
M.A., Dutch Studies (cum laude)
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Concentrations: Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Dutch as a Second Language
Thesis: Nederlands uit Hongaarse en Poolse mond. De invloed van een moedertaal met een vaste klemtoonpositie op klemtoonproductie in het Nederlands als tweede taal. [Dutch from Hungarian and Polish mouth. The influence of mother tongue with a fixed word stress position on the word stress production in Dutch as a second language.]
Oct 2005 – Jul 2008
B.A., Dutch Philology – Wrocław University, Poland
(Feb 2008 – Jul 2008: exchange student at Leiden University, the Netherlands)
SKILLS
Research
· Designing and conducting experiments with MRI (Philips, Siemens) and EEG (Bio-Semi)
· Programming experiments in E-Prime
· Functional (event-related & resting state) MRI analysis in FSL and AFNI
· Structural MRI analysis of DTI data (deterministic tractography with TrackVis)
· Structural MRI analysis of T1 data (voxel-based morphometry, structural covariance networks)
· EEG data analysis in Brain Vision Analyzer and EEGLAB
· Knowledge of R software for statistical computing
· Knowledge of SPSS statistical program
IT
R, SPSS, FSL, E-Prime, EEGLAB, Brain Vision Analyzer, MS Office, Corel, Adobe Photoshop, Praat, Adobe Audition, AFNI, Python
Programming languages
Python, R, Bash
Natural languages
Polish (native)
English (fluent): Certificate of Proficiency in English, level C2, 2009
Dutch (fluent): Certificate of Dutch as a Foreign Language: Profile Academic Language Proficiency, level C1, 2007
German (fluent)
Spanish (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Portuguese (basic)