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
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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)