About me
I am a scientific support staff member at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft; ZAS), providing support for data science/statistics and data management. I was formerly a scientific staff member (researcher and statistics consultant/lecturer) at the Institute of German Language and Linguistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where I completed my doctoral work in the Psycholinguistics group under the supervision of Prof. Pia Knoeferle. During my doctoral studies I was also a fellow at the Einstein Center for Neurosciences at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and am an alumnus of the doctoral program at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain.
After completing an Honours Specialist B.A. in Linguistics at the University of Toronto, I earned my TESOL certification and moved to Berlin to teach English at various companies and institutions, including the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. After some years I returned to academia by completing a joint Master’s of Science as part of the European Master’s in Clincal Linguistics (EMCL 2015-17 cohort) at the Univerisity of Eastern Finland, Univerisity of Potsdam (Germany), and Univerisity of Groningen (the Netherlands). I also hold a M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Eastern Finland, which was completed in tandem with my M.Sc.
Research interests
My current projects investigate the influence of high-level knowledge of the real world on the processing of language. I am specifically interested in how this knowledge interacts with temporal information, such as verb tense. I use eye-tracking during reading, self-paced reading, and electroencephalography (EEG) in order to investigate this interaction.
Outreach
I was a co-founder and co-organiser of the Friday Primes, a monthly Berlin/Potsdam meet-up for PhDs and postdocs working on language processing.
Keywords
psycholinguistics, language comprehension, eye-tracking during reading, self-paced reading, tense processing
About this website
This website was built with Quarto, and contains Quarto Books for courses I’ve taught/am teaching. The code used to produce this website is publicly available in a GitHub repo. I’ve also used the code-tools: true option in Quarto to make the code for each page available as a pop-up. Just look for the </> Code button at the top right of the page to see the relevant code in a pop-up.
Session Info
Below is the session info relevant for the rendering of this website.
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