Current Position
Since October 2023: instructor (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben) at the Institute for Empirical Linguistics
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany)
Education
2020-2024: Research assistant and PhD student in the Phonetics group at Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken (Germany)
Project: Pause-internal phonetic particles in speech communication
Thesis: Filler particles : phonetic details, cross-linguistic comparisons, and the recall effect
2017-20 M.A. Speech Science (specialisation: Phonetics)
Thesis: “Nicht-Lexikalische Häsitationspartikeln in Erst- und Zweitsprache am Beispiel vom Deutschen und Englischen”
(Non-lexical Hesitationsparticles in First and Second Language: An Example of German and English)
Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)
2014-2017 B.A. Anglophone Studies (specialisation: Linguistics)
Thesis: “German Accents in English”
Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)
2013-16 B.A. Sprache und Kommunikation (Language and Communication)
Thesis: “American Sign Language and Spoken English - A Contrastive Analysis”
Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)
Student assistant positions
Dec 2018 - March 2020 Phonetics group led by Prof. Dr. Mathias Scharinger
Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)
Jan 2018 - March 2019 Regionalsprache.de (REDE) led by Prof. Dr. Roland Kehrein
Akademie der Wissenschaft und der Literatur, Mainz (Germany)
2016 Tutorial for the lecture Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Michael Cysouw)
Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)
Memberships
- since 2020 IAFPA student member, student representative (2022-24)
Research Interests
- hesitation particles and disfluencies
- forensic phonetics
- dialectology
- second language accents
- language analysis for the determination of origin (LADO)