CV

Professional appointments

July 2022 - June 2024: Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, Montreal
- Psycholinguistics & Cognition Lab (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 visit to Prof. Adele Goldberg’s lab at 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 (w/ distinction), Leipzig University (2012-2019)
- Thesis: “Mediopassives in English – A cognitive empirical approach”
- Supervisor: Prof. Doris Schönefeld

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: Cognitive Linguistics, Language and Cognition, Constructions, Yearbook of Phraseology, Languages
Abstract review for the following conferences: International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (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)