Scientific work:
- since 06/2025
Researcher at ZAS in the DFG/ANR project An integrative-interactive approach to speech development (VOC2SPEAK) - 01/2023 –
Research associate: DFG-project “Crossing the borders: the interplay of language, cognition, and the brain in early human development” at the Linguistics department, University of Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle) – project-related work and conference organization - 09/2020 – 12/2022
Research assistant: Linguistics department, University of Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle, Dr. Aude Noiray) – Experimental work in collaboration with the University’s BabyLAB - 04/2021 – 08/2022
Maternity & parental leave - 10/2015 – 03/2020
Research associate: Linguistics department, University of Potsdam, chair of Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle: Psycholinguistics, focus on Language Acquisition – Research and teaching - 01/2018 – 09/2019: Maternity & parental leave; Part-time work 09/2018 – 09/2019
- 06/2015 – 01/2018
Coordinator of LOLA, the Laboratory for Oral Language Acquisition at University of Potsdam - 02/2017 – 04/2017
Research stay at University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA) to collaborate with Prof. Dr. Louis Goldstein and his groups – Focus on real-time MRI recordings of child speech - 10/2014 – 03/2015
Internship in Prof. Dr. Adamantios Gafos’ SpeechLab at University of Potsdam – Experiment design - 11/2013 – 09/2015
Research assistant: Linguistics department, University of Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle, Dr. Aude Noiray) – Experimental work in collaboration with the University’s BabyLAB - 10/2011 – 09/2013
Student assistant: Sonderforschungsbereich 632, University of Potsdam (PD Dr. Frank Kügler) – Project-related work on tonal structure
Education:
- 03/2024
Completion of promotion process in cognitive science. Title of dissertation: “Coarticulatory changes across childhood – implications for speech motor and phonological development”. Grade: summa cum laude - 10/2015 – 03/2023
PhD student at the Faculty of Human Sciences at University of Potsdam, cognitive sciences/linguistics - 08/2020 – 05/2021
Certified qualification program Science Communication (Potsdam Graduate School) - 04/2014 – 09/2015
M.Sc. International Program of Experimental and Clinical Linguistics, University of Potsdam. Final certificate: Master of Science (grade: 1.0). Thesis: “Speech planning in preschoolers’ picture naming” - 10/2013 – 03/2014
M.A. Linguistics, Humboldt-University of Berlin - 19/2010 – 09/2013
B.Sc. Allgemeine Theoretische Linguistik (General Linguistics), Uni-versity of Potsdam. Final certificate: Bachelor of Science (grade: 1.3). Thesis: “The effect of syllable structure and phonological com-petition in English-speaking children”