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I hold degrees from the University of Nicosia, Cyprus (BSc in Psychology 2017), University College London (MPhil in Cognitive Science 2020) and Birkbeck, University of London (MSc in Psychological Research Methods 2018 and PhD in Psychology 2023).

Currently, I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Auditory, Language, Perception, Hearing and Attention Lab, Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London, working with Prof Adam T Tierney and Prof Fred Dick. My research investigates how prior experience (language background and musical training) shapes the salience of various acoustic dimensions and our ability to use that information in learning a second language (L2). I'm also exploring auditory attention, salience, and distractibility in auditory perception using  behavioural and neuroimaging methods (e.g., neural tracking of phonological and lexical surprisal, acoustic and linguistic features and semantic similarity).

At the same time, I'm collaborating with Prof Kazuya Saito from the UCL Institute of Education, Culture, Communication & Media Department. My work at the IOE involves investigating the links between auditory processing, attention and second language learning, as well as developing L2 training paradigms and assessment methods.

For more details and up to date version of my CV, please download: 'CV (July 2024)'