APPOINTMENTS & EXPERIENCE

• March 2020 – Current
  Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin.
  Currently working on the DIALOGA project, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin.

• July 2019 – February 2020
  Speech Data Analyst (Language Engineer), Samsung Research, UK.
  I am worked on improving Bixby 2.0 (NLU/ASR/TTS).

• January 2019 – Current
  Associated Researcher, Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin.
  I also held an associated research appointment at ZAS in Berlin, before being awarded a Humboldt research grant.

• January 2019 – July 2019
  Linguist, Google, London.
  I mostly worked as linguist (contracted via Adecco) on ASR.

• January 2017 – January 2019
  Special Scientist, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
  I am currently appointed Special Scientist in Theoretical Syntax, working with Phoevos Panagiotidis on the typologically-informed categorial issues of adjectives.

• October 2016 – January 2017
  Lecturer, University of Saarland, Germany.
  I recently worked as lecturer in formal semantics.

• March 2015 – October 2016
  Assistant professor (Universitätsassistent), Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria.
  I was appointed researcher and lecturer in theoretical linguistics (esp. syntax and semantics) at Graz University.

• February – July 2014
  Fellow, National Institute for Japanese Language & Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
  As an AHRC-IPS fellow, I worked on the diachrony of Japanese quantificational particles with John Whitman in Tokyo.

• September 2012 – February 2013
  Fellow, Harvard University, USA.
  I was appointed fellow at the Department of Linguistics at Harvard in order to pursue research into the syntax/semantics of old Indo-European conjunction markers.

• 2011 – 2014
  Supervisor, University of Cambridge, UK.
  I supervised a range of undergraduate papers in linguistics at Cambridge and affiliated colleges.

EDUCATION

• 2015
  PhD in Theoretical Linguistics
  University of Cambridge, Jesus College
  I wrote my doctoral thesis under Ian Roberts, which I defended in December 2014 and for which I received my PhD in 2015.  My thesis is titled Morphosyntactic atoms of propositional logic: a philo-logical programme and  was fully funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council.

• 2013
  Visiting graduate research student
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  I was a visiting research student at MIT working with David Pesetsky.

• 2011
  MPhil in Theoretical Linguistics
  University of Cambridge, Jesus College
  I got my Master of Philosophy Degree at Cambridge. I wrote my thesis on The syntax of coordination in Sanskrit under Ian Roberts.

• 2010
  BA in Linguistics and English Literature
  University of York, UK
  I studied Linguistics and Literature (double major) at York.