Maria is a PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience, based at Macquarie University (Australia) and University of Potsdam (Germany). She studies how adults learn, retain, consolidate and forget new words. Maria is especially interested in how different memory systems interact when we acquire new information, and how this is influenced by the context in which this new information is encountered as well as by its novelty compared to what we already know. She also has a keen interest in the role of sleep and age-related processes in learning. Maria is an advocate of open science and always eager to learn and implement the most recent methodological and statistical tools in her research.