Full Professor at the Department of Linguistics, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. Scientific coordinator of the Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon. Director of the Lisbon Baby Lab. Executive Director of the Mind-Brain College. Editor-in-chief of Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, and Associate Editor of Phonetica. My research focuses on early speech perception and language development, and on prosody in language. Language acquisition, typical and atypical, is a challenging and exciting research field. Prosody is also a fascinating domain, as it comprehends sub-syllabic units to sentence/discourse-level units, it interfaces with segmental phonology, morphology and syntax, it is relevant to information structure, language processing, or human interaction, and it plays a crucial role in language acquisition. In my work, I seek to understand the properties of prosodic systems across and within languages, and how they are acquired by infants. I also study how prosody may help bootstrapping the learning of language, and may provide early markers of language impairment. I am particularly interested in multisensory constraints on language acquisition, both in typical development and in clinical populations. My research is strongly rooted in multidisciplinary collaborations, and in partnerships with health, education and parent institutions. I have been awarded 10 grants as PI, Co-PI or team leader of projects on typical and atypical language acquisition, and/or on prosody. As an output of one of these project grants, I set up the Lisbon Baby Lab in 2010, and have been directing it since. The work produced lead to publications in journals in language sciences, language and cognitive development, psycholinguistics, psychology, clinical linguistics, and phonetics and phonology (e.g., Infancy, Journal of Child Language, Applied Psycholinguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Language and Speech), as well as in major book publishers like Oxford University Press, Mouton De Gruyter, and Springer. I am actively engaged in young researchers advanced training, having supervised 10 post-doctoral projects, 8 PhD students, 13 MA students, and 14 undergraduate beginners research projects (21 with grants awarded by competitive funding). Moreover, as Director of the Lisbon Baby Lab, I oversee junior researchers, integrate them in mentorship networks and act as senior research adviser. In recent years, I have been chair of international conferences bearing on language acquisition and prosody, such as 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology - Variation, development and impairment: Between phonetics and phonology (2018), NeuroD-WELL - Workshop on Early Language in Neurodevelopmental Disorders (2019), and Speech Prosody 2022 - Getting the prosody right: Acquisition, Impairment, Interventions, and Beyond. In my lab, we have a strong commitment to collaborative team work, knowledge dissemination beyond academia and translational research. I highlight the continued collaborations with the Center of Baby and Child Studies from the Lisbon Paediatric Hospital and the Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders Diferenças. I actively support Open Science and Open Access, having participated in the Dutch EU Presidency Conference on Open Science (2016), and being a member of LingOA-Linguistics in Open Access. Current research interests: early language development; infant speech perception; language impairment; the perception-production link; prosody; phonetics; methodologies in infant language acquisition research; eye-tracking; ERP; ultrasound imaging; language resources and tools in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicon, and language development; clinical applications. 6466 citations, H-index 34, i10-index 78 (retrieved from Google Scholar, 10/10/2022)