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I obtained a PhD in Linguistics at the Ohio State University in 2000 and then joined the CNRS in 2001. After obtaining an "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (HDR) at Paris III University in 2005, I have become Full Professor in 2006 . I am currently a Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the Aix Marseille University and the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (UMR 7309, CNRS) in Aix-en-Provence, and head of the Prosody Group since 2006.

I've also been Professor from 2019 to 2023 at Rutgers University and I have served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Phonetics (from 2016 to 2023). I've been vice-President and President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2016-2020) and have also been partially funded by the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), from 2011 to 2016. I'm now on the Editorial Board of ISCA since 2021.  
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My main research interests span from intonational phonology to intonation production and perception in Italian and French, and have extended to phonetic convergence and imitation and Laboratory Phonology in general. More recently, my work has expanded to online measures of sentence comprehension through prosody (ERP, Eyetracking), to the the study of sarcasm in L1 and L2, the relation between musical skills and word learning and the the impact of individual cognitive differences in intonation processing. More recently, I've been investigating  prosody and gesture acquisition in French and Italian pre-schoolers, as well as French adults.