• Cognitive linguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• (Diachronic) Construction grammar
• Evolutionary linguistics
• Research methods and statistics

I am a PhD candidate working in the SNSF Starting Grant project ‘Who did What to Whom: Strategies of Argument Disambiguation in Early English (WWW-SArDEEn)’ led by Prof. Dr. Eva Zehentner. I obtained both my B.A. and M.A. degrees at the Univeristy of Zurich, majoring in English Literature and Linguistics and minoring in Biology. I wrote my M.A. thesis titled “On the causal hierarchy of socio-affect and L2 development during the work-to-retirement transition” within the scope of the VARIAGE project.

Over the course of my studies my focus has gradually shifted towards (primarily) quantitative research in various branches of cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition. My present focus lies on diachronic construction grammar and morphosyntax as well as the cognitive-functional explanations for the observable variations therein. In the future, I would like to pursue further research that operates at the intersection of linguistics and biology.

My PhD is situated within the WWW-SArDEEn project which is concerned with investigating changes in strategies for argument disambiguation (such as case marking or word order) in early English by means of state-of-the-art statistical and AI-based methods. 

Previously, I worked as a research assistant in the VARIAGE project which aims to study educational and occupational transitions across the lifespan, the retirement transition specifically, with an emphasis on dis/continuity patterns in L2 learning, cognitive functioning, and socio-affective factors.