PhD Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford (2015)
MSc Psychophysics, University of Durham (2009)
BSc Electronic Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest (2007)
2024-present: Principal Investigator (FWF grant P-36215), Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna
2022-2024: Principal Investigator (STARS Starting Grant), Department of General Psychology, University of Padova
2021-2022: Seal of Excellence fellow (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions), in Prof. M. Tettamanti’s Brain & Language Group, Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento
2018-2020: Postdoc in research cluster Music and Language in the Brain, with Profs. T. Fitch & R. Beisteiner, University of Vienna & Medical University of Vienna
2015-2017: Postdoc in the Dresden Music Cognition Lab with Prof. M. Rohrmeier, TU Dresden
2026: Mobility Fellowship: Univ. of Vienna, for research stay at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE, within NCCR Evolving Language), Univ. of Zurich
2021: Postdoctoral Resident Fellowship, awarded at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg
2025: Shortlisted for a Full Professorship in Psychology, Univ. of Krems (AT)
2024: Interviewed for ERC Consolidator grant (Stage 2)
2024: Shortlisted for a Senior Lectureship in Cognitive Science, Univ. of Gothenburg (SE)
2023: Shortlisted for an Associate Professorship (W2) in Systematic Musicology, Univ. of Hamburg (DE)
Member, evolVienna (interdisciplinary evolutionary research network)
Network Associate, Vienna Cognitive Science Hub (interdisciplinary cognitive science research network)
Member, Sounds and Science (science–music outreach and public engagement initiative)
Secretary, Society of Interdisciplinary Musicology
Member, European Society for Cognitive Psychology
Member, Society for Music Perception and Cognition
Member, Society for Education and Music Psychology
Header image cropped from photo by John Cairns, "St Edmund Hall Oxford, Front Quad, 2018", used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.