I’m a post-doctoral researcher working in the Visual Communication (ViCom) Priority Programme at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Prior to that, I worked as a post-doc with Bodo Winter at the University of Birmingham. I did my PhD at the University of Osnabrück, supervised by Michael Franke and Manfred Krifka.
I’m interested in how people use language to create meaning in communication, both when interacting (face-to-face) with one another and when producing and interpreting language in various other settings. In my research I primarily use quantitative empirical methods, including controlled experimentation as well as computational and corpus analysis, to investigate questions related to pragmatic inferencing, strategic communication, argumentation and stance-taking, as well as expressive and affective meaning.
Aside from being interested in theoretical issues in linguistics and cognitive science, I’m also interested in issues related to research design and methodology, and I teach basic data analysis and statistical modeling skills.