Curriculum Vitae

Employment
2025-present
Postdoctoral Researcher
Chosun University, South Korea
2024-2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of York, United Kingdom

 

Education
2020-2024
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
PhD in Behaviour and Cognition (Magna cum Laude)
2019-2020
University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
MRes Cognitive Neuroscience (with Merit)
2018-2019
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
MSc Psychology of Language (with Merit)
2015-2018
Bangor University, United Kingdom
BSc (Hons) Psychology with Neuropsychology (First Class with Honours)

          

Teaching

2025   Quantitative Methods (Statistical Analyses for Linguistic Sciences). Practical sessions (MSc-level), Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York

2024   Scientific research and writing. Seminar series (BSc-level), Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology, University of Göttingen

2024   Bio Cognition: Introduction to Statistics and Statistical analyses in R. Lecture and practical sessions (BSc-level), Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology, University of Göttingen

2022   Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Lecture and seminar series (BA/MA-level), Department Seminar for English Philology, University of Göttingen

 

Invited Talks and Panels

August 2023   Panel Discussion: Talk on Unpacking the how and why of early word learning

Panel discussion leader for the L+ International Summer School on Language Acquisition

March 2023    Learning in a curiosity-driven framework: The role of parents and children in early language development

Talk presented at Language and Cognition Research Group (LACRE), Cardiff University

August 2021   Panel Discussion: Talk on Unpacking the how and why of early word learning

Panel discussion leader for the L+ International Summer School on Language Acquisition

 

Selected Conferences and Workshops

June 2025        Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD) 2025

Poster –   Evaluating 4.5-month-old infants’ preference for self-vocalisations during vocal play

July 2024        International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) 2024

Symposium –   Object familiarity’s role in parent labelling and children’s object exploration and learning, across diverse naturalistic contexts

Talk –  Learning in an interest-driven context: The effect of young children’s selective interests across language development

May 2024        IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)

Pre-conference workshop – The visual primates that we are: 'Learning by watching' in children and monkeys

October 2023  Many Paths to Language (MPAL)

Poster – The effect of labelling and sustained attention during parent-child interaction on novel-word retention

August 2023   Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)

Poster – Children’s selective interests and their association with caregiver-child interactions and word learning

Poster – The effect of labelling and sustained attention during parent-child interaction on novel-word retention

August 2023   Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD)

Talk – The development and maintenance of sustained individual interest in young children – A longitudinal study

August 2022   Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD)

Talk – The interplay between interest and parental input in early word learning

Poster – Measuring interest in early childhood: a validation of various measures of interest in young children

June 2022   Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD)

Talk – The interplay between interest and parental input in early word learning

Poster – Measuring interest in early childhood: a validation of various measures of interest in young children

 

Awards and Scholarships

2023   ‘Conference Best Talk’ Award, Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development 2023

2024   Leibniz ScienceCampus Conference Visit Grant 

2022   Leibniz ScienceCampus Conference Visit Grant

2015   British Council GREAT scholarship

2015-2018      Bangor University International Scholarship (3 x 1year)