CV

Professional appointments

• 07/2022-06/2024: Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, Montreal
  • Psycholinguistics & Cognition Lab (Prof. 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”
  • Supervisors: Prof. Graeme Trousdale, Prof. Nikolas Gisborne, Dr. Chris Cummins
  • Examiners: Prof. Holly Branigan, Prof. Martin Hilpert
• Research visit to Prof. Adele Goldberg’s lab at Princeton University (Feb-April 2020, online only in April)
• MSc Linguistics (with distinction), University of Edinburgh (2017-2018)
  • Thesis: “Priming as evidence of links between constructions: A study of aspects of the English resultative network”
  • Supervisor: Prof. Graeme Trousdale
• Study year at the University of Cambridge via Erasmus+ (2014-15)
• Staatsexamen for teaching English and German at secondary schools (with distinction) and BA British Studies, Leipzig University (2012-2019)
  • 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

Reviewer experience

• Peer reviewer for Cognitive Linguistics
• Conference reviewer for the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (2023)

Admin experience

• Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh (2019-2022, member of the organizing committee)
• Cognitive Linguistics Research Group, University of Edinburgh (2019-2022, co-organizer)
• Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, University of Edinburgh (2019, member of the organizing committee)

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)