Laura Koelma is working as field work coordinator in the NWO Vici project awarded to prof. dr. Elma Blom "Children and Language Mixing: developmental, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects (CALM)".
 
She completed her Bachelor of Social Educational Care in 2017 at the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, followed by a Master of Science in Psychology at London Metropolitan University which she graduated with Distinction in 2021. Prior to her masters, Laura worked as a nanny for several multilingual families in London, England where she got interested in multilingualism and the cognitive development of multilingual children. Her Master dissertation was about fast mapping in monolingual and bilingual adults.