Curriculum Vitae

For publications and conference contributions please see research output.
For outreach contributions please see impact and outreach.

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

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

Postgraduate
- 2025 – 2026, Making Your Research Transparent & Reproducible, Intro to Quantitative Analysis in R, Intro to Data Visualisation in , Python for Data and Research: Insights for R Users, A Gentle and Practical Introduction to Linear Mixed-Effects Models, Introduction to Logistic Regression, South East Doctoral Training Arc (SEDARC)
- 27 March 2023, Fitting Bayesian Linear Mixed Effects and Distributional Regression models with brms, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 18 Feb 2021, Data analysis using (generalised) linear mixed effects models in R, Macquarie University
Undergraduate: 2020 – 2022, PSYU3349 Design and Statistics III, PSYU2248 Design and Statistics II, SPHL3311 Acquired Speech and Language Disorders, COGS2020 Experimental Design and Data Analysis for the Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Macquarie University
Other: 2021 - present, Certified Instructor, The Carpentries

2026, Principal Investigator Start-Up Fund (£5,000), Aston University
2023, Student Researcher Credibility prize (£500), British Neuroscience Association
2021, Instructor training, The Carpentries (A$1,500), Macquarie University
2020, Postgraduate Research Fund (A$5,000): competitive university-wide award for international conferences and lab visits, Macquarie University
2019, Conference travel & participant recruitment awards (€2,000), University of Potsdam
2018 – 2022, PhD Fellowship (A$250,000), Macquarie University
2012 & 2014, Student exchange awards providing tuition and stipend for 2 semesters, University of Vienna

Associate Editor: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Editorial Board: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Journal reviewer: Psychological Science; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Behavior Research Methods; Journal of Memory and Language, Cognitive Science; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Scientific Data; Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience; Instructional Science, Scientific Studies of Reading; Journal of Research in Reading; Dyslexia, Advances in Cognitive Psychology; Language and Speech; Psychology & Neuroscience;Applied Psycholinguistics, and others
Conference reviewer: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)
Conference organiser: Annual meeting of the Forum for Research in Literacy and Language (FRiLL), 9-10 July 2026, Aston University
Open science: 2022 – 2025, ReproducibiliTea journal club Lead, Royal Holloway, University of London; 2026 – present, ReproducibiliTea journal club Lead, Aston University
Inclusivity: 2024 – present, Mentor, In2research
Memberships: Experimental Psychology Society, British Neuroscience Association, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Psychonomic Society

Techniques and approaches: behavioural, EEG, eye-tracking, computational linguistics, computational modelling, applied statistics
Programming: R, Python, MATLAB, Stan, LaTeX, Presentation Neurobehavioral Systems