I am a postdoctoral researcher at the  Institut für Linguistik/Romanistik at the University of Stuttgart and also hold a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Konstanz through December 2026. My research spans language acquisition, bilingualism, and language change, with a particular focus on French and Italian.

I completed my PhD at the University of Stuttgart with the distinction summa cum laude. In my dissertation, I used models of language acquisition to investigate the contrasting histories of verb–particle constructions in French and Italian.

During my PhD I was  employed as Research Assistant within the Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC, DFG FOR5157) Research Unit, working on project H1 (PI: Dr. Thomas Rainsford) and project PB2 (PIs: Prof. Dr. Shanley Allen, Prof. Dr. Carola Trips, & Dr. Thomas Rainsford). Project H1 focused on the development of motion-lexicalization constructions in French and Italian while project PB2 investigated the role of language contact and bilingual speakers as driver of change. 

Previously, I have worked as Student Research Assistant in the Project P10 within the Research Unit Questions at the Interfaces (DFG FOR2111) at the University of Konstanz. The project aimed at investigating the acquisition of Rhetorical Questions by monolingual and bilingual children and adults in Italian and German. I wrote my MA thesis within this project focusing on language dominance in bilingual children examined by means of a Narrative task.