CV

Professional appointments

Oct 2024 - Sept 2026: Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto
- Department of Psychology
- Supervisor: Dr. Blair C. Armstrong
July 2022 - June 2024: Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, Montreal
- Department of Psychology
- Psycholinguistics & Cognition Lab (PI Prof. 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” (download here)
- Supervisors: Prof. Graeme Trousdale, Prof. Nikolas Gisborne, Dr. Chris Cummins
- Examiners: Prof. Holly Branigan, Prof. Martin Hilpert
Research stay at Prof. Adele Goldberg’s lab, Princeton University (Feb-April 2020)
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 (2014-15)
BA British Studies and Staatsexamen English/German (with distinction), Leipzig University (2012-2019)
- Thesis: “Mediopassives in English – A cognitive empirical approach”
- Supervisor: Prof. 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 German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) (2012-2019)

Peer review for the following journals: Journal of Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Language and Cognition, Functions of Language, Languages, Constructions, Yearbook of Phraseology, CogniTextes, Arts & Communication
Abstract review for the following conferences: 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci, 2024), 10th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA, 2024), 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC, 2023), 5th Workshop on 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 Psycholinguistics & Cognition lab meetings at Concordia University (2022-)
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)