CV
Professional appointments
- Nov 2024 - Oct 2026: Postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto
- Department of Psychology
- Computation and Psycholinguistics Laboratory
- Supervisor: Blair C. Armstrong
- July 2022 - June 2024: Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, Montreal
- Department of Psychology
- Psycholinguistics & Cognition Lab
- Supervisor: 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” (see here for the published 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 (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: 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: Doris Schönefeld
Awards
- 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)
Publications and talks
See here for publications and here for talks
Teaching experience
See here
Reviewer experience
- Peer review for the following journals: 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, 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)
Administrative experience
- 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)
Roles and memberships
- 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)