CV
Research Interests
Cognitive Linguistics, Usage-Based Approaches, First Language Acquisition, Language Evolution, Evolutionary Linguistics, Construction Grammar, Perspective-Taking, Evolutionary Anthropology, Social Cognition, Pragmatics, Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition
Employment
Since September 2022
Faculty of Humanities, Center for Language Evolution Studies Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
POLONEZ BIS fellow, PI in the project "Metaphor and Semiotics in (Inter)action
Since February 2022
Faculty of Humanities, Center for Language Evolution Studies & University Centre of Excellence IMSErt - Interacting Minds, Societies, Environments, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Assistant Professor
October 2021 - February 2022
Anglistisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg
Lehrbeauftragter
October 2020 - September 2021
Center for Language Evolution Studies & University Centre of Excellence IMSErt - Interacting Minds, Societies, Environments, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Postdoc
October 2017 - September 2020
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Lecturer (100%) (Linguistics und Language Practice)
October 2016 - September 2017
Institut für Anglistik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (50%) als Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben / Lecturer (Linguistics and Language Practice)
Education
December 2019
Anglistisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg
PhD, English Linguistics
Topic: Perspectivation and Pretend Play in Language Acquisition
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Sonja Kleinke, Prof. Dr. Frank Polzenhagen
October 2011 – October 2015
Heidelberger Graduiertenschule für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg
October 2010 – May 2012
Universität Heidelberg
State Examination for the Teaching Profession, Psychology (minor)
April 2006 – October 2011
Universität Heidelberg
State Examination for the Teaching Profession, English Philology (major), German Philology (major)
October 2008 – June 2009
University of Nottingham, UK
ERASMUS exchange programme (English Language and Literature, Canadian and American Studies, Theology, German Studies)
Grants
August 2019
DAAD travel grant, 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Nishinomiya, Japan
April 2013 – April 2016
Beneficiary of a PhD Scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
März 2016
Travel Grant of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, New Orlans, USA
September 2015
Travel Grant of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Protolang 4 – Ways to Protolanguage, Rome, Italy
Juni 2015
Udo Keller Foundation Forum Humanum Grant, International Interdisciplinary Summer School Origins of Human Cooperation with Michael Tomasello, Tübingen
August 2013
Travel Grant of the Graduate Academy of the University of Heidelberg, DGfS Summer school: Sprachentwicklung: Evolution, Wandel, Erwerb, Berlin
Juni 2013
Travel Grant of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Edmonton, Canada
April 2013
Student Grant of the Cognition and Poetics Conference 2013, Universität Osnabrück
Februar 2013
Travel Grant of the Soheyl Ghaemian Travel Fund for Scholars, Cognitive Grammar in Literature, University of Nottingham, UK
März 2012
Student Grant of the 9th Conference on the Evolution of Language, Kyoto, Japan
Memberships
since 2019
Societas Linguistica Europaea
since 2016
International Cognitive Linguistics Association
since 2016
Evolutionary Linguistics Association
October 2012 - October 2016
Board Member and General Secretary of the Gercam Cognitive Linguistics Society
since 2012
Member of the Graduate Platform "Sprache und Wissen"
since 2012
European Centre for Linguitics, Universität Heidelberg
since 2011
Sprachwissenschaftlichen Tagung für Promotionsstudierende (Founding Member)
since 2010
German Cognitive Linguistics Association
Conference Organisation
September 2019
8th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association: Applied Cognitive Linguistics, English Department, University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz
August 2014
3. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende / 3rd LinguisticConference for Doctoral Students, Department of English, Universität Heidelberg