Academic Positions & Collaborations

Positions

2026 – present
Saarland University | Department of Language Science and Technology
Brevit: Breathing behaviour and non-lexical vocalisations in talk-in-interaction
Postdoctoral Researcher
2024 – 2026
Saarland University | Department of English
Senior Lecturer (Teaching only)
2024
University of York | Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Babble Development and Caregiver Speech in English and Ugandan Babies
Research Associate
2019 – 2022
Newcastle University | School of English, Communication and Language Sciences
Visiting Lecturer (Teaching only)
2019 – 2020
University of York | Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Teaching only)
2018
Saarland University | Department of English
Research Assistant
2015 – 2016
University of Münster | English Department
CLARIN-D: Curation Project 3 — "WebMAUS Evaluation and Integration Process Documentation based on the ICE-Scotland Corpus"
Student Research Assistant
2014 – 2015
Saarland University | Department of Language Science and Technology
IFCASL — "Individualized Feedback for Computer-Assisted Spoken Language Learning"
Student Research Assistant

Education

2019 – 2024
University of York
PhD in Linguistics
Supervision: Prof. Paul Foulkes
Thesis: "The individual lay listener as a variable in speaker individualisation tasks"
2011 – 2018
Saarland University
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies ("Staatsexamen", with Distinction)
Studies of English (Major), History (Major), and Education Sciences (Minor)
Dissertation: "An empirical approach to the relevance of intonation to negotiating Givenness"
Semesters abroad:

Awards

2019 – 2023
Cusanuswerk — Doctoral sponsorship
2018 – 2019
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes — "Exposé Scholarship"
2014 – 2018
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes — Undergraduate/Postgraduate Scholarship

Memberships & Roles

2025 – present
International Phonetic Association — Member
2022 – present
International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics — Student Member
2021 – 2023
York Papers in Linguistics — Editorial Board Member
2021 – 2022
International Speech Communication Association — Student Member