Curriculum Vitae

Professional experience

Researcher 2024 - today
English and Digital Linguistics, TU Chemnitz

Scientific assistant 2019 - 2022
English Language and Linguistics, TU Chemnitz
- Coordinator of two DAAD projects with Southeast Europe
- Statistical analysis, corpus preparation, annotation of sociolinguistic interviews, research and editing

Internship Linguistics 03 - 05.2020
VICO Research and Consulting near Stuttgart
- Modeling of search queries for social media monitoring on customer topics
- Annotation of posts from the social web according to tonality

Scientific assistant 2017 - 2019
English Literatures, TU Chemnitz

Education

PhD, English Language and Linguistics, Chemnitz University of Technology 2020 - 01.2024
“Perception and production of word stress cues in Slavic English varieties” (summa cum laude)

MA English and American Studies at TU Chemnitz 2017 - 2020

BA English and American Studies at TU Chemnitz 2014 - 2017

Semester abroad at Université de Poitiers, France 2016 - 2017

Awards

Saxon State Scholarship for PhD studies 2020 - 2023
DAAD prize for excellent achievements of international students 2020
Marie-Pleißner prize for excellent Master’s thesis 2020
H. Charles-Lipmann prize for poetry in English 2018

Teaching

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Publications

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Talks and Workshops

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Skills

Bulgarian (native), English (fluent), German (fluent)
Statistical analysis - R, Matlab
Phonetic analysis and resynthesis - Praat
Transcription and annotation of audio data - Praat, ELAN, GAT
Text analysis and annotation - AntConc, INCEpTION, Python
Version control – Git

Projects

Project leader of the DAAD cooperation project “I, Expert: Media competence for science through linguistics” in cooperation with the University of Zaragoza 2024

Organised workshops and summer schools in the frame of the DAAD projects “From Uncertainty to Confidence and Trust” (2020), “Constructing Confidence and Trust Online” (2021) and “Comparing Confidence and Trust Online and Offline” (2022) 2020 - 2022

Memberships

International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) 2024 - present
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) 2024 - present
Associated member at the Collaborative Research Center “Hybrid Societies”, TU Chemnitz 2022 - 2023

Research stays

Data acquisition at the Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic 30.10-04.11.22, 8-12.11.21

Additional activities

Bulgarian transcriber for “Declining Case: Inflectional Loss in Progress”, University of Surrey 2024 - today
Alumna ambassador for the TU Chemnitz for Bulgaria 2023 - 2025
Summer School “Digital Humanities” at UNIMORE Modena, Italy 2021, 2022
Assistant of international students at the TU Chemnitz Student Buddy program 2015 - 2023
Student ambassador of the English Department publishing blog posts on Campus TUschler 2015 - 2020