Education
since 2019
PhD student at the Brainlab – Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group at the Deparartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona. My PhD research is supervised by Jordi Costa-Faidella and Iria SanMiguel.
2018 - 2019
PhD student at the University of Barcelona in the “Cognitive Biology of Language Group” supervised by Cedric Boeckx.
2017 – 2018
Master of Science “Brain and Cognition” at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Final thesis was an EEG study investigating the event-related potentials of auditory rule learning, supervised by ICREA Research Professor Juan Manuel Toro Soto.
2016 – 2017
Master of Arts at the University of Barcelona (Spain) in cognitive science (CCiL), linguistics track. Final thesis was a review of correlations between genetic variation on the AVPR1a gene and behavioural variation in relation to social cognition, supervised by ICREA Research Professor Cedric Boeckx.
2015
Teacher training for German as a foreign language at the TTI in Freiburg.
2014 – 2015
Erasmus exchange semester at the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain).
2011 – 2015
Bachelor of Arts at the University of Freiburg (Germany) in English and American studies with a focus on English linguistics, and a minor in Spanish literature and linguistics. Final project was a corpus-based error analysis study of English university students’ German essay writing, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Mair.
Work
2018 - 2019
Research assistant at the University of Barcelona Institute for Complex Systems in the group of Dr. Cedric Boeckx working on topics related to the globularisation of the human skull and its cognitive implications.
2017 – 2018
Natural Language Processing (NLP) specialist at YUKKA Lab (based in Berlin), a FinTech startup that works on sentiment processing algorithms to predict trends on the financial market.
2016 – 2017
German teacher at ABCHumboldt, a private language school in Barcelona, teaching teenagers, adults and company classes.
2015 – 2016
German teacher at Mitte., a private language school for students of all ages in Zaragoza, Spain.
2014
Regular contributing editor at Die Trendblogger, a curated online blog project by MIZ Babelsberg based in Berlin.
Intern of product management at PLANarama, London.
2013 – 2014
Co-presenter of Studio Vier, a radio show about student life and culture by Radio Dreyeckland (Freiburg).
2012 – 2014
Content editor at Learn English Online, a website (based in Freiburg) providing online language learning resources.
2012 – 2015
Freelance contributing editor at fudder.de, an online magazine based in Freiburg (Germany) for local culture, politics, and events.
2011
Intern at Funkhaus Aschaffenburg (Germany), a local media production company for TV, radio and print media.