2024: 4th Argumentation & Language conference (ARGAGE2024) (with Jennifer Schumann, Daniel de Oliveira Fernandes & Ramy Younis), University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 25-27.06.2024.

2023a: Swiss Association of University Teachers of English 2023 biennial conference (SAUTE2023) (with Julia Straub, Kilian Schindler & Niklas Fischer), University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 05-06.05.2023.

2023b: "Pragmatic phenomena in argumentation: It is not only about what you say, but also about how you say it" (with Jennifer Schumann), 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 29.08-01.09.2023.

2022: AMoRe kick-off workshop (AMoRE: An Argumentative Model of Rephrase: Pragmatic and Rhetorical Approach), Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, 09-11.03.2022.

2021a: Implicit Meaning in Argumentation: Functions, Uses, Norms (IMAFUN), IMAFUN project kick-off meeting, University of Fribourg, 15.09.2021.

2021b: ECA Online Day, "Viral arguments: Public discourse in a pandemic age" (with Fabio Paglieri, Elena Musi, Marcin Lewinski & Frank Zenker), online workshop, 06.09.2021.

2021c: Pragmatic Perspectives on Disagreement in Argumentative Contexts, Panel convened with Jennifer Schumann, IPrA conference, Winterthur, 02.07 2021.

2021d: Round table Swiss Pragmatics: past, present, future (PragmatiCHs), online, 01.02.2021.

2021e: Viral Arguments: Public Discourse in a Pandemic Age, ECA Online Day 2021, 06.09.2021.

2020: Rethinking Pragmatics, International workshop, University of Bern, 02-03.11.2020.

2018a: Emotional Relevance, International workshop, University of Geneva, 26.06.2018.

2018b: 2nd Argumentation & Language conference (ARGAGE2018), Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, 07-09.02.2018.

2017a: 2nd European Conference on Argumentation (ECA2017), University of Fribourg, 20-23.06.2017.

2017b: 2nd Communication and Cognition conference: Miscommunication (COMCOG2017), University of Fribourg, 08-10.02.2017.

2015a: 1st Argumentation & Language conference (ARGAGE2015), University of Lausanne, 09-11.09.2015.

2015b: 1st European Conference on Argumentation (ECA2015), Lisbon, 09-12.06.2015.

2014: CDA20+ Symposium, VU University Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam, 08-09.09.2014.

2011: Communication & Cognition 2011: Manipulation, Persuasion and Deception in Language, University of Neuchâtel, 26-28.01.2011.

2010: 6èmes journées Suisses de Linguistique, University of Neuchâtel, 09-10.12.2010.

2009: Langue Française en Contextes, Association for French Language Studies conference, University of Neuchâtel, 03-05.09.2009.

Review editor for Frontiers in Language Sciences

Member of the editorial Board of Argument & Computation (IOS Press)

Member of the editorial board of Argumentation (Springer)

Member of the editorial Board of Revista Iberoamericana de argumentación (UAM ediciones)

Member of the editorial board of Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy (Springer)

Member of the editorial board of CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines)

Member of the scientific and programme committees of international conferences in linguistics, pragmatics, argumentation theory and discourse analysis:

• Argumentation & Language (ARGAGE)

• Argument, Dialogue, Persuasion (ARGDIAP)

• Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD)

• Communication & Cognition (COMCOG)

• International Workshop on Deceptive AI (DeceptECAI2020)

• European Conference on Argumentation (ECA)

• International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS VIII)

• Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference (OSSA)

• Philosophy of Argumentation (PHILARG2021)

Peer-reviewing (journal articles and monographs):

• Applied Linguistics (Oxford Journals)

• Argumentation (Springer)

• Argumentation & Advocacy (Taylor & Francis)

• Argumentation & Analyse du Discours

• Argument & Computation (IOS Press)

• Bloomsbury

• CADAAD Journal

• Cambridge University Press

• Critical Discourse Studies (Taylor & Francis)

• Discourse Processes (Taylor & Francis)

• Discourse Studies (Sage)

• Frontiers in Communication

• Frontiers in Psychology

• Functions of Language (John Benjamins)

• Implications philosophiques

• Informal Logic

• International Journal of Communication

• International Review of Pragmatics (Brill)

• Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press)

• Journal of Language and Politics (John Benjamins)

• Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier)

• Lingua (Elsevier)

• Naure Scientific Reports (Springer)

• Pragmatics (John Benjamins)

• Pragmatics & Cognition (John Benjamins)

• Routledge studies in linguistics

• Sage Open

• SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature

• Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS)

• Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric (de Gruyter)

• Text & Talk (de Gruyter)

• Topoi (Springer)

• TRANEL – Travaux Neuchâtelois de Linguistique

Scientific reviewer for funding agencies

• NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)

• ISF (Israel Science Foundation)

• NCN (Polish National Science Centre)

• SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation)

2024-present: Titular Professor (honorary title), English Dept., University of Fribourg.

2016-present: Senior Lecturer (Maître d’enseignement et de recherche), English Dept., University of Fribourg.

2015-present: Lecturer, Institute of English Studies, University of Neuchâtel.

2013-present: Lecturer, Institute of Language and Communication Science, University of Neuchâtel.

2018-2018: Lecturer, Institute of French Language and Literature, University of Bern.

2013-2016: Postdoctoral Fellow, English Dept., University of Fribourg.

2012-2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Science Centre, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

2010-2012: Assistant Professor, dept. of Language and Communication, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2005-2010: Teaching assistant & PhD student, Institute of Language and Communication Science, Université de Neuchâtel.

2010a: CUSO Soft Skills Workshop, ‘La méthode expérimentale en Sciences du Langage’, University of Neuchâtel, 23-24 April.

2010b: Doctoral Programme Argupolis, profs. A-N. Perret-Clermont, F. Clément, ‘Towards a social psychology of argumentative situations and knowledge practices (First module)’, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 27-29 January.

2010c: Doctoral Programme Argupolis, prof. F. Snoeck-Henkemans, “Argumentation and verbal communication”, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, May 31 – June 3.

2010d: Doctoral Programme Argupolis, profs. P. Chilton, L. de Saussure, A. Rocci. “Methodological issues: semantic and pragmatic instruments for argument analysis”, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, June 3-7.

2009a: Doctoral Program Argupolis, prof. E.C.W. Krabbe, ‘Logic and Formal Dialectic’, University of Lugano, Switzerland, 27-30 April.

2009b: Doctoral Program Argupolis, profs. N. Grossen, N. Müller-Mirza, F. van Eemeren, B. Garssen, E. Rigotti, University of Lugano, Switzerland, January 8-22.

2008: FASS Research Training Programme, ‘Discourse Analysis’, prof. R. Wodak, University of Lancaster, May.

2007a: Doctoral School ‘Types and Properties of Dialogues’, prof. Douglas Walton, University of Lugano, Switzerland, April 23-25.

2007b: Modules of the CUSO Doctoral Programme, Switzerland: M1-M2: ‘Approches formelles et cognitives du langage’, resp. Jacques Moeschler, Leysin, March 19-22; M4: ‘Polyphonie et représentation du discours’, resp. Antoine Auchlin, Jean-Michel Adam, University of Geneva, May 3-4.

2006a: Modules of the CUSO Doctoral Programme, Switzerland: M4: ‘Analyse du discours médiatique’, resp. Marcel Burger, University of Lausanne, May 5-6; M1-M2: ‘Approches formelles et cognitives du langage’, resp. Jacques Moeschler, Leysin, June 19-22; M7: ‘Bilingual Pragmatics’, resp. Jacques Moeschler, University of Geneva, November 8 & 15.

2006b: European Summer School in Language, Logic & Information (ESSLLI) 2006, July 31 – August 11, Málaga, Spain.

2005: Doctoral School BeNeFri (Switzerland).

2005-2010: PhD Thesis, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

2008-2009: Visiting PhD studenship, Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK. Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for prospective researchers (project n°119687).

1998-2004: Licence in Linguistics, Spanish language & literature, and Philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

1998: Certificate of Proficiency in English, London, UK.

1997: Freshman, Lincoln University College, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1990-1996: Highschool, French Baccalauréat in Science, Lycée Franco-Argentin Jean Mermoz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Primary school:

• 1987-1990: Primary school, Ecole Française de Bâle, Basel, Switzerland.

• 1985-1987: Primary school, Lycée Franco-Mexicain, Mexico City, Mexico.

• 1983-1985: Primary school, Colegio Helvetia, Bogotá, Colombia.