Merilyn Meristo is an Associate Professor of French Studies at Tallinn University and the Head of the Foreign Language Teacher Master's Programme. Her doctoral research focused on teachers' motivation, sense of school climate, self-efficacy, and job satisfaction, primarily framed by Self-Determination Theory. Over the past 10 years, she has expanded her research to include language learners' and language teachers' contexts, as well as foreign and second language acquisition. Her recently completed research grant explored the history of foreign language teaching in Estonia before, during, and after the Soviet occupation. As a teacher educator, she has supported language teachers' professional development and taught research seminars for university students in Sri Lanka for years.