Personal Profile

I have been part of the Brain Language Laboratory at Freie Universität Berlin since 2018, where I first joined as a student assistant and now continue as a pre-doctoral researcher.

I hold a Bachelor's degree in German Philology (major) and Philosophy (minor) from Freie Universität Berlin and a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Potsdam. From 2018 to 2024, I worked as a student assistant in the lab, supporting teaching activities and conducting tutorials, contributing to public outreach, and assisting in the implementation and analysis of studies within the ILAT project.

My research is situated at the intersection of neurolinguistics and interactional linguistics, with a focus on aphasia and communication in challenging interactional contexts. I am particularly interested in interactions between people with aphasia and their relatives and in how communicative difficulties are managed in everyday conversation. Using Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, I investigate adaptive communicative practices and their implications for rehabilitation and social participation. This focus is reflected in my previous work: my Bachelor's thesis examined communicative strategies used by relatives of individuals with aphasia, while my Master's thesis analyzed how individuals with aphasia initiate repair in conversation.

In my work, I have gained experience in the collection and analysis of multimodal data, including video and audio recordings, as well as in the organization and documentation of complex and sensitive datasets. I also contribute to undergraduate teaching in linguistics and neurolinguistics.