Short biography
Evelina Leivada is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her focus is on language variation and bilingual development. She got her PhD in Cognitive Science and Language from Universitat de Barcelona in 2015. In 2017-2019, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. Funded by the European Commission, she developed the project ‘Disentangling Variation’, which examined how variation in the linguistic input affects development in bilingual and bidialectal populations. In 2020, she joined Universitat Rovira i Virgili as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow, working on grammar processing in different groups of bilinguals. Among her recent achievements, her selection in the Aurora Outstanding Program (Tromsø Research Foundation & UiT) stands out. This initiative is available to the most outstanding young scholars in each discipline and trains them to become research leaders in their respective fields.
