Curriculum Vitae

Academic positions

2025–present

Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Linguistics

Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń · Center for Language Evolution Studies

2022–2025

Principal Investigator & Postdoctoral Researcher

Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin · DFG project FLESH

2018–2022

Doctoral Researcher

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & ZAS Berlin

2015–2018

Student & Research Assistant, Phonetics Working Group

Bielefeld University (Prof. Petra Wagner)

Visiting positions

2025

Visiting Researcher

Goethe University Frankfurt

2023

Visiting Researcher

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

2023

Visiting Researcher

Donders Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen

Education

2018–2022

PhD in General Linguistics, summa cum laude

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · dissertation: Iconicity in Language and Speech

2016–2018

MA in Linguistics: Communication, Cognition and Language Technology

Bielefeld University

2013–2016

BA in Linguistics & Teaching German as a Foreign Language

Bielefeld University

Awards & honors

2026

Nominated for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis

by the President of the Leibniz Association

2024

Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize

German Linguistic Society (DGfS), for the best linguistics doctorate in Germany

Roles & service

2022–present

Coordinator, ViCom Data Network

2024–2026

Mentee, Leibniz Mentoring 2024/25

2024–2025

Deputy Equal Opportunities Officer, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin

2023–2025

Guest Editor (with Susanne Fuchs and Jody Kreiman), JASA Special Issue on Iconicity and Sound Symbolism

2023–2025

Co-founder, envisionBOX

2023–2025

Co-organizer, ZAS Mentoring Program, Berlin

Teaching

2026

Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

DGfS Summer School, Bielefeld University

2023–2025

Introduction to Linguistics

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · winter 2023/24 (with Jordan Chark) and 2024/25 (with Ludger Paschen)

2024

Iconicity in Communication

DGfS Summer School, University of Göttingen

2022

Sound Symbolism

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · summer

2018–2021

Iconicity in Language

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · winter 2018/19 (with Susanne Fuchs) and 2020/21