Education
- 2023.07–Pres.
PhD in General Linguistics
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin & Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Dissertation: “Code-Switching within an Integrated Competence: Analysis across different typologies of languages”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis Alexiadou - 2020.10–2022.11
Master of Arts in Linguistics
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Cumulative Grade: 1.2
Thesis: “Periphrastic Causatives in Cantonese: The Case of ‘Zing’ Causative”
Research Focus: Specific indefinites in Cantonese, Language policy of Cantonese in Hong Kong - 2017.10–2020.11
Bachelor of Arts in English & German Linguistics
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin & Siegen Universität
Cumulative Grade: 1.5
Thesis: “Mixing verb use in the language mixing variety Cantonese-English in Hong Kong”
Research Focus: Cantonese heritage speakers in Germany and their production of Sentence Final Particles - 2012.09–2015.07
Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) in Accountancy
City University of Hong Kong
CGPA: 3.57 (German equivalent: 1.6)
Research and Professional Experience
- 2023.08–2024.10
Lab Manager LeibnizDream Project, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
- Supervised research assistants
- Prepared studies and managed data collection processes - 2021.06–2023.05
Student Research Assistant, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
- Conducted corpus searches and data collection from CHILDES
- Designed experiments using Ibex
- Analyzed data on grammar variations and double exponence - 2021.01–2023.09
Voluntary Research Assistant Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) project, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
- Transcribed Cantonese children data in CLAN formats - 2019.02–2019.05
Research Intern, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
- Developed research project examining English verb usage in Cantonese discourse
- Conducted literature review and data collection
- Performed analysis of linguistic patterns