After graduating from the University of Zagreb with a degree in General Linguistics and Italian Language and Literature, she obtained her PhD in the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science with the dissertation titled Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. As part of her postgraduate doctoral studies, she conducted research under the mentorship of Prof. Albert Costa at the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona. Since 2024, she has served as Head of the Chair of Applied Linguistics at Department of Linguistics. Within the Linguistics BA and MA study programmes, she teaches the following courses: Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Language Disorders, Language Development and Learning, Mental Lexicon, and Methods of Psycholinguistic Research 1 and 2. Within the Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics MA programme, she teaches Introduction to Clinical Linguistics, Language and Speech Disorders, Assessment of Language Functions, Neurofunctional Analysis of Language, Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Correlates of Reading and Writing, and Psycholinguistic Models and Theories.
From 2006 to 2015, as part of her academic work, she collaborated with the Department of Neurology and the Department of Rheumatology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center. Since 2017, she has collaborated with the Department of Biological Psychiatry and Psychogeriatrics and the Department of Diagnostics and Intensive Care at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče. She has published many scientific papers and participated in both international and national conferences, particularly in the fields of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. In co-authorship with Prof. Vlasta Erdeljac, she edited the scientific volume Interdisciplinary Linguistic and Psychiatric Research on Language Disorders.
Since 2020, she has been an active member and the regional coordinator of the Diverse International Scientific Consortium for Research in Thought, Language and Communication in Psychosis (DISCOURSE), led by Prof. Lena Palaniyappan at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Canada. Since 2023, she has also been an active member and the regional coordinator of the international interdisciplinary consortium for the multilingual implementation of the Mini Linguistic State Examination (MLSE) for classifying primary progressive aphasia, led by Prof. Peter Garrard at the Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George’s Hospital, University of London. Since 2024, she has been a collaborator on the four-year institutional research project Metaphor and Metonymy in Language and Thought, funded by the NextGenerationEU programme and led by Kristina Štrkalj Despot, PhD, senior research fellow. Since 2025, she has been the principal investigator of a four-year institutional research project titled Mapping Linguistic and Speech Markers in a Transdiagnostic Model of Atypical Language-Speech Processes (MAPMARK), also funded by the NextGenerationEU programme.