About me
I am an experimental psychologist with a PhD in Cognitive Psychology. My research focus is cognitive processes in language production. I have vast experience in experimental design, statistical analysis, data visualization and academic publishing. I have experience in different programming languages (R, Matlab, Python, Javascript) and have used a varied set of tools to set up experiments, control data acquisition and analyze data.
Get in touch per E-mail or LinkedIn (in English, German, Spanish, or Catalan).Experience
Postdoctoral researcherDept. of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu FabraMember of the ERC-project AMORE focusing on studying variation in referential expressions. Responsibilities included large scale online data collection, programming an online search interface for the ManyNames data set, and utilizing computational models of Language & Vision to predict human naming variation. |
2021 — 2023 |
Postdoctoral researcherCenter for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu FabraBeatriu-de-Pinós grant focusing on interactions between emotion processing and first vs. second language production. In the context of this grant, I collaborated on EEG-studies on spoken production and sign language and extended my analytical skill set to Bayesian model estimation. |
2018 — 2021 |
Assistant professorDept. of Psychology, Leipzig UniversityNon-permanent faculty position with regular teaching in B.Sc. and M.Sc. Psychology programs. In addition, I was the lab manager and technical coordinator for the Cognitive Psychology group and fulfilled various administrative roles in the department. From 2015-2017, I was principal investigator of my own DFG-funded research project (incl. a doctoral student). |
2012 — 2017 |
Skills
The majority of my research has relied on empirical methods. I have vast experience in experimental design and conducting well-controlled studies with human participants. To this end, I have used various software environments including Psychtoolbox, PsychoPy, and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
I am an advanced user of R, which I preferably use for data analysis and data visualization. I also have experience programming in Python (data analysis, computational modelling, experiment control and data acquisition), Matlab (experiment control and data acquisition) and have recently started to use Javascript (experiment control and data acquisition, web development).
Research
My main research line has been cognitive processes in speech production. Some of the questions I have addressed in my research are:
- How do we choose particular words out of the vast number of possible alternatives (e.g., choosing between beagle, dog, and hound)?
- How does selecting words interact with basic processes like attention and working memory?
- How does concurrent processing of sounds (e.g., hearing a mooing sound), pictures (e.g., seeing a dog), and words (e.g., hearing or reading the word sheep) influence each other when we plan to speak?
Recently, I have started exploring the use of computational methods developed in the context of Computer Vision research to questions relating to human language processing.
I am committed to open science practices in order to (a) allow for maximal transparency and reproducibility of my work, (b) increase the impact and utility of the data sets collected by me for the collective endeavour of science, and (c) ensure continued availability of these data sets to the general public. For this reason, I have since 2016 published all data and corresponding analyses scripts of all published and submitted manuscripts authored and co-authored by me.