Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 2022
- Doctor of Philosophy: Phonetics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Thesis topic: phonetic accommodation of humans communicating with a spoken dialog system
- 2014
- Master of Arts: Speech Science – Phonetics, University of Marburg, Germany
Thesis topic: foreign accent imitation and intelligibility in a forensic context
- 2012
- Bachelor of Arts: Romance Languages and Literature, Speech Science & Phonetics, University of Jena, Germany
Thesis topic: authenticity of French pronunciation in native speakers of German
Work
- since 2023
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Dublin, Ireland
- School of Computer Science
- Affiliated with the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology
- 2022-2023
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Dublin, Ireland
- HCI@UCD group at the School of Information and Communication Studies
- Affiliated with the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology
- 2016-2022
- Research Associate, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Phonetics and Phonology group at department of Language Science and Technology.
- Project: CHIC - Phonetic Convergence in Human-Computer Interaction, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- 2015-2016
- Research Associate, Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas, Marburg, Germany
- Project: regionalsprache.de (REDE), fundend by Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
- 2014-2015
- Teaching Associate, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Joint scholarship program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES).
- 2010-2011
- Foreign Language Assistant, Lycée Ronsard, Vendôme, France
- Scholarship program of the PAD (Pädagogischer Austauschdienst) on behalf of the Ministers of Education and Culture of the Federal States, Germany.
Other
- since 2021
- Co-organizer
Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop
[Workshop website]
- 2021
- Co-organizer
Conference: Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction
[Conference website]
- 2020-2022
- ISCA Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee
Representative of SAC
[ISCA website: Distinguished Lecturers]
- 2016-2022
- ISCA Student Advisory Committee
2021-2022 Advisor
2020 General Coordinator
since 2018 Board Member
2016-2017 Volunteer
- We are organizing student events for the annual Interspeech conference.
[ISCA-SAC website]
- 2016-2022
- Associated member of SFB 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding and its Integrated Research Training Group (IGK)
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
[SFB 1102 website]
- 2016-2017
- Local Organizer
Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems
- I was a local organizer for the 2017 YRRSDS in Saarbrücken, Germany.
- 2013-2022
- Newsreader
atz Hörmedien für Sehbehinderte und Blinde e.V.
- MIKS - an audio journal for visually impaired and blind people that makes local news accessible.
[atz website: MIKS]