CV

Education

2010: PhD (Dr. phil.) in Germanic Linguistics; University of Marburg
2007-2010: PhD studies in Germanic Linguistics (with a focus on Neurolinguistics) at the University of Marburg
2006: Magister Artium (MA equivalent); University of Marburg
2000-2006: undergraduate studies (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, University of Aberdeen and University of Marburg)

Academic Career

May 2019: Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UMass Amherst
April 2018: Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UMass Amherst
as of October 2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for German Language and Literature I and CRC 1252 Prominence in Language, University of Cologne
April 2015-September 2016: Director of the Neurolinguistics Lab, Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
April 2014-March 2015: Visiting Professor, Department of Germanic Linguistics, University of Marburg
October 2013-March 2014: Visiting Professor, Department of German Language and Literature I, University of Cologne
November-December 2012: Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UMass Amherst
2010-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
2007-2010: Predoctoral Researcher, Department of Germanic Linguistics, University of Marburg

Fellowships and Grant Funding

2019: DAAD Travel grant
2014-2016: Innovative Teaching Project (together with Dr. Svenja Völkel, University of Mainz): Experimentierfeld Sprache: Projekt zur Entwicklung eines Modul-Curriculums zur Bandbreite und Schnittstellen empirischer Methoden in der Linguistik. (development of an MA course syllabus that covers most of the current research fields in empirical linguistics).
2012-2013: Inneruniversitäre Forschungsförderung für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Research Grant awarded to early career researchers at the University of Mainz) Project: Reading acquisition in 3rd and 5th graders: On the impact of word predictability on parafoveal processing in reading
2010: PhD completion scholarship; University of Marburg
2007-2010: PhD scholarship; DFG graduate school “NeuroAct – Neuronal representation and action control”; University of Marburg and University of Giessen
2002-2003: Erasmus stipend; Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald

Teaching

Reviewing

Applied Psycholinguistics; Brain and Language; Heliyon; Journal of Memory and Language; Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; John Benjamins Publishing; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience; Language and Speech; Neuropsychologia; Plos One; Psychophysiology; Written Language and Literacy; Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

Organisation of Workshops

2020: Prediction and diversity in language processing: Influences of speaker, register and experimental method (DGfS Workshop, 42nd Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society)
2017: Introduction to programming in Python & Introduction to EEG analysis with MNE-Python (University of Cologne)
2016: Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Mainz: “Empirische Forschungsmethoden in der Linguistik“ (Research Methods in Linguistics) (together with Dr. Svenja Völkel)

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