CV

Professional appointments

• 07/2022-06/2024: Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, Montreal
  • Psycholinguistics & Cognition Lab (Prof. Roberto G. de Almeida)

Education

• 2018-2022: PhD Linguistics and English Language (submitted), University of Edinburgh
  • Expected completion: spring/summer 2022
  • Thesis: “Structural priming in the grammatical network – A study of English argument structure constructions”
  • Supervisors: Prof. Graeme Trousdale, Prof. Nikolas Gisborne, Dr. Chris Cummins
• Feb-April 2020: Research visit to Prof. Adele Goldberg’s lab at Princeton University (online only in April)
• 2017-2018: MSc Linguistics (with distinction), University of Edinburgh
  • Thesis: “Priming as evidence of links between constructions: A study of aspects of the English resultative network”
  • Supervisor: Prof. Graeme Trousdale
• 2014-15: Study year at the University of Cambridge via Erasmus+
• 2012-2019: Staatsexamen for teaching English and German at secondary schools (with distinction) and BA British Studies, Leipzig University
  • Thesis: “Mediopassives in English – A cognitive empirical approach”
  • Supervisor: Prof. Doris Schönefeld

Teaching experience

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Publications and talks

See here for publications and here for talks

Admin experience

• Member of the organizing committee for the Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh
• Co-organizer of the Cognitive Linguistics Research Group, University of Edinburgh
• Member of the organizing committee for the Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, University of Edinburgh (4-7 June, 2019)

Awards

• Horizon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Concordia University, Montreal (2022-2024)
• School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science PhD Scholarship, University of Edinburgh (2018-2021)
• Research Support Grants (multiple), University of Edinburgh (2019-2021)
• Go Abroad Fund, University of Edinburgh (2019)
• PPLS Highly Commended Dissertation Award for MSc dissertation, University of Edinburgh (2018)
• Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a three-month internship in Tokyo, Japan (2017)
• Erasmus+ scholarship for a study year at the University of Cambridge (2014-2015)
• Member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) (2012-2019)