Curriculum Vitae

For conference contributions and publications please see research output.
For outreach contributions please see impact and outreach.
A short PDF version (including research output and outreach activities) is available here.

Academic appointments

Jan 2026 – present, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Prize Fellow (tenure-track), Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, Aston University
June 2022 – Dec 2025, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rastle Lab, Royal Holloway, University of London
Feb 2020 – June 2022, Academic Tutor, Macquarie University
July 2016 – Aug 2018, Research Assistant, NOLA Lab & VasishthLab, University of Potsdam

Education

2022, PhD in Cognitive Science, joint degree from Macquarie University (Australia) and Universities of Potsdam (Germany), Newcastle (UK), Groningen (Netherlands), and Trento (Italy), IDEALAB PhD programme
2018, MSc in Experimental & Clinical Linguistics, University of Potsdam, IECL programme
2015, MA in Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- 2012 & 2014, Student exchange, University of Vienna, Austria

Teaching & educating

20 June 2025 – March 2026, Data analysis training developer, South East Doctoral Training Arc (SEDARC)
27 March 2023, Instructor, Fitting Bayesian Linear Mixed Effects and Distributional Regression models with brms, Royal Holloway, University of London
Academic Tutor, Macquarie University
- Session 1, 2021 & 2022, PSYU3349 Design and Statistics III
- Session 2, 2020 & 2021, PSYU2248 Design and Statistics II
- Session 2, 2020 & 2021, SPHL3311 Acquired Speech and Language Disorders
- Session 1, 2020, COGS2020 Experimental Design and Data Analysis for the Cognitive and Brain Sciences
18 Feb 2021, Instructor, Data analysis using (generalised) linear mixed effects models in R, Macquarie University
21 – 25 Sept 2020, Instructor, Introduction to R Software Carpentry

Awards and funding

2023, Student Researcher Credibility prize, British Neuroscience Association
2021, Funding award for an 8-week instructor training with The Carpentries (USD 1,500), Macquarie University
2020, Postgraduate Research Fund (AUD 5,000): competitive university-wide award for international conferences and lab visits, Macquarie University
2019, Conference travel & participant recruitment awards (EUR 2,000), University of Potsdam
2018 – 2022, IDEALAB PhD Fellowship, a highly competitive fellowship providing full tuition, stipend, and international travel costs
2012 & 2014, Student exchange awards providing tuition and stipend for 2 semesters, University of Vienna

Experimental techniques and programming languages

Behavioural, EEG, corpus linguistics, NLP, Computational modelling, Eye-tracking, fNIRS
R, Python, MATLAB, Stan, LaTeX, OpenSesame, Presentation Neurobehavioral Systems

Scientific societies

Professional service

Peer-review
- Editorial Board: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
- Reviewer: Psychological Science, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Behavior Research Methods, Journal of Memory and Language, Cognitive Science, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Scientific Data, Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, Instructional Science, Journal of Research in Reading, Advances in Cognitive Psychology, Language and Speech, Psychology & Neuroscience, Applied Psycholinguistics
- Conference abstract reviewer: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2024 & 2025
Open science
- 2022 – 2025, ReproducibiliTea journal club and workshop series Lead, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Instructor, Pre-registraion & Open Materials: The What, Why, and How, “Opening Up Open Science: Nuts and Bolts for Beginners” workshop, 31st annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Denmark, 10 July 2024
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
- 2024 – present, Mentor, In2research

Training and development

2025, Best practices for the processing and analysis of eye movements during reading, UCL
2024, Introduction to Research Impact, Social Science Impact Accelerator, Royal Holloway, University of London
2024, Storytelling with Impact: Visual storytelling, Nifty Fox Creative
2024, Storytelling with Impact: Unleash the power of narrative, Duncan Yellowlees Training
2024, Storytelling to Success: Developing your Narrative CV, Researcher Development and Culture, University of Leeds
2023, Effective Grant Writing, Royal Holloway, University of London
2022, Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python, DataCamp [certificate]
2022, The 6th Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP), Bayesian Advanced stream, University of Potsdam
2021, Badged Instructor, The Carpentries
2020, Python Data Structures, University of Michigan [certificate]
2020, Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python), University of Michigan [certificate]
2020, MATLAB Fundamentals, MathWorks, Macquarie University
2020, Python Basics for Data Science, edX
2020, Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life, University of Chicago [certificate]
2019, Australasian Magnetoencephalography (WAM): Neurocognitive clinical applications of MEG: Present and future, Macquarie University
2019, Introduction to Python, Software Carpentry Workshop, Macquarie University
2019, The 3rd Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP), Bayesian Advanced stream, University of Potsdam
2018, Advanced Methods: Bayesian Statistics with R, University of Potsdam
2017, fNIRS-Workshop, NIRx Medizintechnik GmbH, Berlin
2016, fNIRS-Workshop, NIRx Medizintechnik GmbH, Berlin
2016, Standardised Tests of Cognitive and Language Development in Children (SETK 2, SETK 3-5, Bayley-III, KABC-II), University of Potsdam

Language skills

German – English – Swedish – Russian – British Sign Language (beginner) – Icelandic (beginner)