Curriculum Vitae

Education

2022

Doctor of Philosophy: Phonetics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Thesis topic: phonetic accommodation of humans communicating with a spoken dialogue 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, Speech Science & Phonetics, University of Jena, Germany
Thesis topic: authenticity of French pronunciation in native speakers of German

Work

since 2022

Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Dublin, Ireland
Affiliated with the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology

• since 2023: School of Computer Science, Berndsen lab
• 2022-2023: School of Information and Communication Studies, HCI@UCD group

2016-2022

Research Associate, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Department of Language Science and Technology, Phonetics group
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-chair Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop
Brno, Czechia (2021), Incheon, Korea (2022), Dublin, Ireland (2023), Kos Island, Greece (2024)

2021

Co-chair Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction Conference
University of Freiburg, Germany

2020-2022

Member ISCA Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee

2016-2022

Member ISCA Student Advisory Committee (ISCA-SAC)

• 2021-2022: Advisor
• 2020: General Coordinator
• 2018-2022: Board Member
• 2016-2017: Volunteer

2016-2022

Associated member SFB 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding and its Integrated Research Training Group (IGK)
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

2016-2017

Local Organizer Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS)
Saarland University, 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.