Assumpció Rost is associated professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research interests are Phonetics and Phonology of the Romance languages (with special regard to Spanish), and sound variation and change explained through Experimental Phonetics, Dialectology, and Sociolinguistics. She has been working from this perspective since the defence of her PhD on May 2011. The results of her research have been published in specialized scientific journals, book chapters, conference contributions, and edited volumes. Along with Dr. Carolina Julià Luna (UNED), she has co-directed two research projects from the Spanish government. In fact, she has participated in competitive projects related to her specialization area since she began her scientific career in 2004. Besides, several research visits to relevant institutions had been carried out (i.e. CSIC, Phonetics Laboratory at the Universitat de Barcelona, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa).

Her teaching activity started as part of her predoctoral scholarship holder duties at the Universitat de Girona (Girona, Spain), and later on continued as part part-time instructor in the same institution. From September 2012 until January 2024, she has been teaching both in Degree and Master studies at the University of the Balearic Islands. She has taught courses on Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, Historical Grammar, History of Spanish Language, or Introduction to Spanish Grammar. She has also given lectures in the Phonetic Sciences Master's program held by the CSIC (Madrid, Spain). She is currently developing her career in the Departamento de Filología Española at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is mainly giving courses devoted to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, and to Dialectology in the Bachelor's Degree in Spanish Language and Literature, but also in the Master's program in Spanish Language, Hispanic Literature, and Spanish as a Foreign Language.