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2020 - 2024

PhD · Psycholinguistics

Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Thesis: When the beat drops – How the alignment of beat gestures with speech affects word recognition.
• Supervisors: Prof Antje Meyer, Dr Hans Rutger Bosker
• Defense date: 5 November 2025

2017 - 2019

MSc · Cognitive Neuroscience - Language & Communication

Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Research Master
• Thesis: Event related potentials during error-based phonological learning.
• Supervisors: Prof James McQueen, Dr Mirjam Broersma, Dr Sybrine Bultena

2013 - 2017

BSc · Psychology

University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

• Thesis: Gender differences in lexical decisions for positive, negative and neutral words.
• Supervisor: Prof Johanna Kißler

May 2025 - present

Postdoctoral researcher

Radboud University, Donders Centre for Cognition, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Studying gesture-speech synchrony in speech perception and production

Apr 2025 - March 2026

Postdoctoral researcher

Radboud University, Centre for Language Studies, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Developing an online prosody proficiency test battery for L2 learners of English

Aug 2019 - Feb 2020

Research Assistantship

Radboud University, Centre for Language Studies, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Conducting behavioral and EEG studies, analyzing ERP data

Oct 2018 - Aug 2019

Student Assistantship

Radboud University, Donders Centre for Cognition, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Conducting behavioral and EEG studies, annotating and analyzing speech recordings/speech sounds

May 2018 - Jul 2018

Student Assistantship

Radboud University, Centre for Language Studies, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Conducting behavioral studies, translation and transcription (English and German)