Education
2020 – 2024
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Dr. rer. nat. in Behaviour and Cognition (Magna cum Laude)
Thesis title: Caregiver-child dynamics in early language development: The influence of children’s interests and parental input on children’s world learning
2019 – 2020
University College London (UCL), UK
MRes Cognitive Neuroscience (with Merit)
Dissertation Project: Gaze, manipulation, and their combination: Communicative strategies in caregiver-child and adult-adult interactions
Modules include: Methods in Neuroimaging: Lesion Approaches, Statistics for Psychology, Communication in Cognitive Neuroscience, Elaborative and adaptive processes.
2018 – 2019
The University of Edinburgh, UK
MSc Psychology of Language (with Merit)
Dissertation Project: Perception of disfluencies in non-native speech
Modules include: Brain imaging in cognitive neuroscience, Disorders of Language Functions, Univariate and Multivariate statistics
2015 – 2018
Bangor University, UK
BSc (Hons.) Psychology with Neuropsychology (First Class)
Dissertation project: Cues or codes: An investigation into accent relativity
Modules include: Bilingualism: language, cognition and literature, Applied Behaviour Analysis, Forensic Psychology, Control of Mental Processes
Teaching
2024
Schlüsselkompetenzen: Wissenschaftliche Kompetenzen (Key competencies: Scientific competencies). Seminar, Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology, University of Göttingen
2024
Biokognition (Bio Cognition): Introduction to Statistics and Statistical analyses in R. Limited series module, Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology, University of Göttingen
2022-2023
General Linguistics: Psycholinguistics. Teaching seminar, Department Seminar for English Philology, University of Göttingen
Invited talks/panels
March 2023
Learning in a curiosity-driven framework: The role of parents and children in early language development
Talk presented at Language and Cognition Research Group (LACRE), Cardiff University
August 2021,2023
Discussant, Lplus International Summer School
Selected conferences and Workshops
July 2024
International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) 2024
Symposium – Who’s leading this? How object familiarity shapes caregiver-child joint attention and learning
Talk – Learning in an interest-driven context: The effect of young children’s selective interests across language development
May 2024
IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)
Pre-conference workshop – The visual primates that we are: 'Learning by watching' in children and monkeys
October 2023
Many Paths to Language (MPAL) 2023
Poster – The effect of labelling and sustained attention during parent-child interaction on novel-word retention
August 2023/ September 2023
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2023
Poster – Children’s selective interests and their association with caregiver-child interactions and word learning
Poster – The effect of labelling and sustained attention during parent-child interaction on novel-word retention
August 2023
Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD) 2023
Talk – The development and maintenance of sustained individualinterest in young children – A longitudinal study
June 2022
Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD) 2022
Talk – The interplay between interest and parental input in early word learning
Poster – Measuring interest in early childhood: a validation of various measures of interest in young children
March 2021
34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Short talk – Perception of disfluencies in non-native speech
Awards and Scholarships
2023
‘Conference Best Talk’ Award, Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD) 2023
2022, 2024
Leibniz ScienceCampus Conference Visit Grant
2015
British Council GREAT scholarship
2015-2018
Bangor University International Scholarship (3 x 1year)