Appointments & Experience

Researcher & Lecturer

Humboldt University, Berlin

Mercator Fellow

Humboldt University, Berlin

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow

Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin

I was PI of the DIALOGA project, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin

Speech Data Analyst (Language Engineer)

Samsung Research, UK

I worked on improving Bixby 2.0 (NLU/ASR/TTS).

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.

Linguist

Google, London

I mostly worked as linguist (contracted via Adecco) on ASR.

Special Scientist

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

I was appointed Special Scientist in Theoretical Syntax, working with Phoevos Panagiotidis on the typologically-informed categorial issues of adjectives.

Lecturer

University of Saarland, Germany

I worked as lecturer in formal semantics.

Assistant professor (universitätsassistent)

Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria

I was appointed researcher and lecturer in theoretical linguistics (focussing on diachronic syntax and semantics) at Graz University.

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.

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.

Supervisor

University of Cambridge, UK

I supervised a range of undergraduate papers in linguistics at Cambridge and affiliated colleges.

Education

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.

Visiting graduate research student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

I was a visiting research student at MIT working with David Pesetsky.

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.

BA in Linguistics and English Literature

University of York, UK

I studied Linguistics and Literature (double major)  at York.