CV

Education

Employment

2023–
SNSF Ambizione fellow & research group leader ("Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience of Language") at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich

2017–2023
Postdoctoral researcher & academic associate at the Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich

2016–2017
Research associate at the Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich

2015–2016
Laboratory manager at the Department of Linguistics, Ruhr University Bochum

2011–2015
PhD student at the Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Awards, fellowships, and grants

2023–2027
SNSF Ambizione

2018
Otto Hahn Medal for junior scientists in the Max Planck Society in appreciation of outstanding scientific achievements (2017 laureate), Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science

2017
National Geographic Explorer Early Career Grant, National Geographic Society

2011–2014
PhD student fellowship, Max Planck International Research School of Language Sciences, Nijmegen

Teaching experience

I have taught undergraduate courses on introduction to comparative language science, psycholinguistics, grammatical relations typology, incrementality in sentence production, inter-individual and cross-linguistic differences in language processing, language processing in context, practical excercises in psycholinguistics, bilingual language acquisition, eye tracking methodology, and the structure of Tuvaluan at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Ruhr University Bochum, and the University of Zürich.

Conferences and workshops

I am centrally involved in the organisation of the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) conference series (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) and have co-organized a number of scientific workshops at the University of Zurich and at international conferences.