CV
Employment
- April 2026–March 2027: Acting Chair of Modern English Linguistics, LMU Munich
- Department of English Philology
- Nov 2024–March 2026: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Toronto
- Department of Psychology, Computation and Psycholinguistics Laboratory
- Supervisor: Blair C. Armstrong
- July 2022–June 2024: Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow, Concordia University, Montreal
- Department of Psychology, Psycholinguistics & Cognition Lab
- Supervisor: Roberto G. de Almeida
Education
- PhD Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh (2018–2022)
- Thesis: “Structural priming in the grammatical network: A study of English argument structure constructions” (see here for the published version)
- Supervisors: Graeme Trousdale, Nikolas Gisborne, Chris Cummins
- Examiners: Holly Branigan, Martin Hilpert
- Research stay at Adele Goldberg’s lab, Princeton University (Feb–April 2020)
- MSc Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (2017–2018)
- Supervisor: Graeme Trousdale
- Undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge (2014–15)
- BA British Studies and Staatsexamen English/German, Leipzig University (2012–2019)
- Supervisor: Doris Schönefeld
Grants and awards
- Collaborator on Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada (2025–2027)
- UTSC Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto (2024–2026)
- 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)
- Short-term 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 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) (2012–2019)
Publications and talks
See here for publications and here for talks
Teaching experience
See here
Academic service
Editorial work
- Guest Editor for a special issue on ‘Creativity and extravagance through the empirical lens’ [S. Hartmann & T. Ungerer, Eds. (forthcoming). Linguistics Vanguard.]
Reviewing for journals
- Journal of Linguistics
- Cognitive Linguistics
- English Language and Linguistics
- Journal of Historical Linguistics
- Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
- Language and Cognition
- Functions of Language
- Languages
- Constructions and Frames
- Constructions
- Journal of Cognitive Science
- Yearbook of Phraseology
- CogniTextes
- Arts & Communication
Reviewing for conferences
- International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2023, 2025)
- Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024, 2026)
- International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA 2024, 2026)
- Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Applications (CARLA 2023)
Academic events
- Co-organizer of theme session “Extravagance and creativity through the empirical lens” at the 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina (July 2025)
- Co-organizer of the CARLA 2023 workshop (Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Applications) at Concordia University, Montreal (August 2023)
- Co-organizer of the Linguistic Circle colloquium at the University of Edinburgh (2019–2022)
- Co-organizer of the Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference at the University of Edinburgh (2019)
Other
- Emerging Scholar Representative of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA, 2023–2025)
- (Intermittent) member of the Cognitive Science Society, Societas Linguistica Europea, the International Cognitive Linguistics Association, and the German Cognitive Linguistics Association