I am Associate Professor (Aggregate) at the Department of Linguistics of the School of Arts and Humanities of University of Lisbon and the Director of the Lisbon Phonetics and Phonology Lab. My research is focused on prosodic structure, rhythm and intonation, language acquisition and development, and frequency in grammar. I am interested in producing fundamental research, language resources, and translational research in various areas. In fundamental research, my main goal is to uncover knowledge about the European Portuguese linguistic system, in particular in the domain of phonology and its interfaces with other components of grammar, as well as to contribute this knowledge to the general understanding of linguistic systems and language workings, acquisition and processing. In my work, fundamental knowledge and corpora collection have been instrumental in the development of linguistic tools and resources that I believe to be useful in many areas, both theoretical and applied. Work in these areas has naturally nourished my firm commitment to doing translational research, in particular in clinical, and more in general in the health care domain. An important part of my scientific activity has been done in a multidisciplinary, rich environment, in collaboration with specialists coming from various different knowledge domains, including phoneticians, syntacticians, psycholinguists, psychologists, neurologists, speech therapists, statisticians, social pharmacists, dentists, paediatricians. ___________ In the last decade, I have been involved in various funded projects on language acquisition and development in typical and atypical populations, as a PI (DEPE - Development of prosodic structure and intonation, 2010-2013; and EBELa - Eyes and Brain - Early Markers of Language Development, 2013-2018), as co-PI (PLOs - Predictors of Language Outcomes, 2018-2021), or as member the team (Horizon21: Early language development in Down Syndrome, 2015-2018). The work produced within these projects significantly increased existing knowledge on relevant aspects of the process of early language acquisition and how they relate to later language outcomes, establishing early risk markers for language and communication impairments. This work led to publications in high ranked journals (Q1), such as First Language, Frontiers in Psychology, Language Learning and Development and Language and Speech, of which I am a co-author. I have been involved in a variety of dissemination activities in related areas, including the organization the international congress LabPhon 16 - Variation, development and impairment: Between phonetics and phonology (2018) and Speech Prosody 2022 - Getting the prosody right: Acquisition, Impairment, Interventions, and Beyond. Important outputs of funded projects, to which I have contributed, were also the development of assessment tools, including the MacArthur Bates Communicative Inventories (CDI) for European Portuguese - Short Form I (8 to 18 months) and Short Form II (16 to 30 months), which are now freely available to use by paediatricians, speech therapists, caregivers, and other groups. Since 2020, I am the Director of the Phonetics and Phonology Laboratory, a Laboratory which has long been committed to young researchers training and which has provided a stimulating research environment to more than 30 undergraduate, MA and PhD students and young postdoc researchers in the last 15 years. I have (co-)supervised 11 MA theses (1 ongoing), 8 PhD theses (2 ongoing) and 3 Post-Doc projects. Some indicators of the impact of my research are the following: Scopus: 516 citations, H-index 11; Google Scholar: 6155 citations, H-index 34. I have received two scientific awards from ULisboa/CGD in the domain of Language Sciences (2018 and 2022).