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
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