I use neuroimaging techniques to better understand language function and the underlying neural correlates in health and disease. Further research interests include the application of modern technology (e.g., virtual reality) in language rehabilitation and the influence of such interventions on the reorganization of the brain.

I completed my PhD at the University of Zurich (UZH) - thesis: functional recovery of sensorimotor and language networks in patients with acute (sensorimotor) and chronic (language) lesions - and continued my studies as postdoc (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF) focusing on the neuronal representation of ambiguity in both perception and language processing at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milano and as visiting researcher at the King's College in London (focus: Diffusion tensor imaging, DTI tractography). At the University Hospital Zurich, I assessed language representation in tumor patients before and after surgical intervention with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Many findings of the above-mentioned language studies and various contributions of MRI-professionals and both international and UZH researchers are incorporated in the SNSF funded virtual tour through the MR-center at the University Hospital Zurich, which I developed in collaboration with the Life Science Zurich Learning Center (UZH/ETH) and the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons.