After obtaining her MA in General Linguistics and Italian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, she enrolled in
interdisciplinary scientific postgraduate study program “Language and cognitive neuroscience“, University of Zagreb. As a part of her postgraduate studies, she
continued her scientific specialisation in the laboratory “Cognitive neuroscience research group” at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, under the mentorship of Full Professor Albert Costa, PhD. From 2006 to 2015, she was actively involved in the projects on language disorder at the University Department of Neurology and University Department of Rheumatology, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, University Hospital Center “Sestre milosrdnice“ Zagreb. In 2015, she defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy” under the mentorship of Full Professor Vlasta Erdeljac, PhD and Assisstant Professor Hrvoje Hećimović, MD, PhD, Primarius. From 2008 to 2012, she worked as an external associate at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. From 2012 to 2015 she worked there as a research and teaching assistant and from 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2017, she was elected a research associate in the scientific area of humanities, field of philology and in 2020 she was elected a scientific-teaching title of an Assistant Professor, PhD. At the Department of Linguistics, she teaches the following courses: Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Language Disorders, Language Development and Learning, Mental lexicon, Psycholinguistic Research Methods 1 and 2. In the graduate study program Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, she takes part in the teaching of the following courses: Introduction to Clinical Linguistics, Language and Speech Disorders, Testing of Language Functions, Neurofunctional Analysis of Language, Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Correlates of Reading and Writing, and Psycholinguistic Models and Theories. She has published several scientific papers and has participated in many international and domestic scientific conferences in the fields of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. Since 2017, she has conducted research in cooperation with the Department of Biological Psychiatry and Psychogeriatrics and the Department for Diagnostic and Intensive Care, University Psychiatric Hospital “Vrapče“ Zagreb. She is a co-editor of the scientific book entitled “Interdisciplinary Linguistic and Psychiatric Research on Language Disorders“ together with Full Professor Vlasta Erdeljac, PhD. She participates in various psycholinguistic projects in cooperation with Full Professor Arne Nagels, PhD, Neurolinguistics Lab, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and with Associate Professor Alexandra Perovic, PhD, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Department of Linguistics, University College London. Since 2021, she has been part of the international scientific interdisciplinary team researching thought, language, and communication in psychosis, known as the “Diverse International Scientific Consortium for Research in Thought, Language, and Communication in Psychosis (DISCOURSE)”.