Since her graduation in the Research Master Language and Cognition with cum laude honours at the University of Groningen in September 2018, Joanna is a pre-doc and holds various teaching and research assistantships at the Faculty of Arts of the RUG. As research assistant for Prof. Merel Keijzer, she helps coordinating everything that is concerned with the BALAB and she supports the individual projects of the lab members. Being a simultaneous bilingual of German and Italian, having lived in five different countries since finishing highschool and holding a BA in Nordic linguistics, her big passions are everything that is concerned with multilingualism and language acquisition. Joanna’s fields of expertise are investigating the bilingual mind with psycholinguistic methods such as EEG and self-paced reading, language typology and Germanic/Nordic linguistics, teaching basic statistics in R for linguists on bachelor and master level, and the investigation of sociolinguistic phenomena such as gender in language.