Prof. of Psycholinguistics, Chair of Lund University Humanities Lab and of Huminfra. I study acquisition and processing in L2/multilingual speakers, esp. semantics, discourse, and gesture production/comprehension. I am a Wallenberg Scholar (Embodied bilingualism), and lead Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Teaching (LAMINATE) w. J. Granfeldt. I am President of the International Society for Gesture Studies.

I headed The Dynamics of Multilingual Processing at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 2003-2009 (w. P. Indefrey), and co-founded the Nijmegen Gesture Centre (w. A. Özyürek), the first of its kind. I was area editor of the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics 2012 (w. J. Williams), Assoc. ed. of Language Learning (2009-14). I am now Editor of Language, Interaction and Acquisition, Assoc. Ed. of Frontiers in Psychology, and Info ed. of Gesture. I was Vice-Pres. of the European Second Language Association 2000-07. I received its Distinguished Scholar Award in 2019.