Research interests

Psycholinguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Learning; Language evolution, Cultural evolution, Cognitive Sciences, Aesthetics, Cognitive & Behavioral Biology; Phonetics, Phonology, Phonotactics, Prosody, Speech Pauses

Professional experience

2022 - Post-doctoral university assistant, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna

2022 - Associate of the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub

2023 External guest lecturer, Department of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń

2021-2022 Post-doctoral researcher, Centre of Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń

2016-2020 Prae-doctoral university assistant, Department of English and American Studies & Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna

2014-2021 High school teacher for Biology and English, B[O]RG Lessinggasse, 1010 Vienna

Education

2021 PhD in Biology, University of Vienna; Supervisors: Prof. Tecumseh Fitch, Prof. Nikolaus Ritt

2015 MSc in Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition, University of Vienna

2014 Mag. rer. nat. in Biology and English (high school teaching degree), University of Vienna

2011 BSc in Biology (focus on genetics and microbiology), University of Vienna

Grants and third-party funding

2024 Disruptive Innovation Grant, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Austrian Science Fund, PI of the project “BEALP – Biophysiological explorations of aesthetically appealing linguistic patterns”, 38,200 €

2022 Post-doc Track Grant, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 21,000 €

2021 Mobility Fellowship, Excellence Initiative program of the Polish Ministry of Science and Education, 20,000 €

2020 Dissertation Completion Grant, University of Vienna, 6000 €

2019 Science Communication Grant of the Vienna Business Agency, 4400 €