CV

Employment

Nov 2024 – Oct 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

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 revised 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)
- Thesis: “Priming as evidence of links between constructions: A study of aspects of the English resultative network”
- Supervisor: Graeme Trousdale
Undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge (2014–15)
BA British Studies and Staatsexamen English/German, Leipzig University (2012–2019)
- Thesis: “Mediopassives in English – A cognitive empirical approach”
- Supervisor: Doris Schönefeld

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)

Peer review for: Journal of Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics, Journal of Historical Linguistics, , Language and Cognition, Functions of Language, Languages, Journal of Cognitive Science, Constructions and Frames, Constructions, Yearbook of Phraseology, CogniTextes, Arts & Communication
Abstract review for conferences: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci, 2024), International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC, 2023, 2025), International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA, 2024), Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Applications (CARLA, 2023)

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 Cognitive Linguistics Research Group at the University of Edinburgh (2019–2022)
Co-organizer of the Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference at the University of Edinburgh (2019)

Emerging Scholar Representative of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA, 2023–2025)
Member of the Cognitive Science Society
Member of the German Cognitive Linguistic Association (GCLA)