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]