Resume

  • 2nd Dec 2024

Post-doctoral researcher at the Linguistics Institute at the University of Stuttgart, specializing in the interpretation of German phrases that challenge grammaticality and compositionality. My expertise includes psycholinguistics, semantics, and experimental methods such as eye-tracking to explore how language conveys agency and intent. Retired poet.

Experience

2022–present

Post-doctoral Researcher

Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Linguistik Anglistik
Research on the semantics-pragmatics interface, eye-tracking comparison, data analysis, experimental design, teaching (including the Digital Research Toolkit for Linguists course), organization & management of an eye-tracking lab, conference organization.
2013–2022

Doctoral Candidate and Researcher

Universität Tübingen, Sonderforschungsbereich 833
Empirical research into the mechanisms of meaning adaptation, conference organization (including the 2016 DGfS Summer School), supervision of student assistants, technical support with eye-tracking, R, LaTeX, data analysis, experimental design and participant recruitment. During my time in the project I conducted 15 different experiments, from offline questionnaire studies, in-lab eye-tracking, to online self-paced reading studies.
2012–2013

Researcher, DFG project

DFG project "The structure and processing of explanatory discourse in German and Norwegian: a psycholinguistic investigation into discourse theory," Universität Tübingen, NTNU Trondheim, University of Alberta Research into implicit causality. Planning, execution, analysis & evaluation of eye-tracking and continuation experiments at Tübingen University & NTNU Trondheim. Organization of the 2013 Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives workshop.
2012

Research Assistant

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Execution, analysis and evaluation of experiments in a virtual-reality setting. Data preparation, transcription and annotation.
2010–2014

Research Assistant

Sonderforschungsbereich 833, Universität Tübingen
Organization & management of an eye-tracking lab, programming carrying out, and analysis of experiments (visual word eye-tracking, reading-time, picture verification, continuation, forced-choice, acceptability judgment). Organization of conferences and workshops (3rd Workshop on Semantic Processing, Logic and Cognition, Linguistic Evidence 2012).
2009–2014

Tutor and Teaching Assistant

Universität Tübingen
Teaching assistant for courses at the Seminars for German, English, and General Linguistics, including the courses on experimental methods. Providing tutorial and academic support services for university students. Developing and track tutorial sessions and creating training materials. Assisting in term paper grading.
2009

Student assistant

NUI Maynooth
Academic support, digitizing and archiving of books.

Education

2022

Doctor of Philosophy

Universität Tübingen
Being Friendly is Difficult: Psycholinguistic Experiments on Agentivity in Copular Constructions, supervised by Prof. Dr. Claudia Maienborn, Prof. Dr. Oliver Bott, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jäger
2013

Master of Arts

Universität Tübingen
Implicatures in Uncooperative Contexts, supervised by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sternefeld, Prof. Dr. Ingo Hertrich
2007

Erasmus exchange

NUIM Maynooth
Focus on Old and Middle Irish under Kim MacCone

Volunteer Work

2006–2010

Student Advisor

As a member of the Fachschaft Sprachwissenschaft at Universität Tübingen, I was providing prospective and current students with information about their course of studies. Promoting the Department of Linguistics at Open Day. Communicating with academic staff on behalf of the students. Organizing the student conference TaCoS 2007 in Tübingen, as well as other occasional get-togethers and celebrations.
2006–2017

Treasurer, Project Manager, Assistant Managing Editor

Non-profit Stowarzyszenie W Cieniu Lipy Czarnoleskiej, Wrocław. Editorial work, typesetting, event organization, book keeping, website maintenance.
2012

Girls Day at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

I guided students through demonstrations and explorations of the virtual reality and cybernetics laboratory.

Skills

Software & IT

  • R, Python, NumPy, TensorFlow, Jupyter, SPSS, Data Viewer, JavaScript basics,
  • Git, GitHub, HTML, XML, VS Code, Linux,
  • PCIbex, Experiment Builder, E‑Prime, WebEx2, OnExp2, M‑Turk,
  • Eye-tracking, Moven suit and Kinect,
  • LATEX, Microsoft 365‑Software, Open Office, Inkscape.

Professional skills & soft skills

  • Scientific communication and technical writing,
  • Experimental design, data collection and annotation,
  • Data analysis, visualization and statistical modelling,
  • NLP and ML basics,
  • Public speaking, teaching & presentating,
  • Agile methods, team coordination, conflict management.

Languages

Polish native

English C2, full professional proficiency, TOEFL

German C2, full professional proficiency, ZOP

Spanish A2, elementary proficiency

Professional Development, Licenses & Certifications

2025

 Natural Language Processing (in progress, 75%) online course by DeepLearning.AI (Modules: Natural Language Processing with Classification and Vector Spaces; Natural Language Processing with Probabilistic Models; Natural Language Processing with Sequence Models)
2024

 Machine Learning online course by Stanford University and DeepLearning.AI (Modules: Supervised Machine Learning. Regression and Classification; Advanced Learning Algorithms; Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning) [ credentials ]
2023

 Python for Everybody online online course by University of Michigan (Modules: Using Python to Access Web Data; Python Data Structures; Data Analysis with Python; Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python). [ credentials ]
2021

 Agile methods workshop
2020 Jobhunting the German Way workshop
How to Prepare for an Academic Job Interview workshop
How to Write an Academic Cover Letter and CV workshop
Negotiating, Your Salary and Beyond - Be More Successful in Your 200 Daily Negotiations workshop
Auf der Zielgeraden zur Defensio und Disputatio workshop
ABC der Antragstellung workshop
Empowerment-Tag 2020: Digital Empowerment workshop
2019 First aid course
2018 SMLP summer school
DoKo summer school
Statistik mit R university course
Introduction to Python university course
Introduction to C++ university course
Data Scientist with R DataCamp course
2017 SMLP summer school
Erfolgreich Drittmittel einwerben workshop
Miteinander reden, bevor es kracht! – Konflikte im Unialltag besser meistern workshop
Introduction to Bayesian Modeling using Stan workshop
2016 DGfS summer school
Ziele richtig setzen und erreichen – Nie wieder aufschieben! workshop
Ich krieg' (nicht) die Krise! – Promotionskrisen vorbeugen und souverän bewältigen workshop
2015 Fundraising fĂĽr junge Wissenschaftlerinnen workshop
Convincing Scientific Presentations workshop
Publishing Research Articles in the Natural & Life Sciences workshop
Applying for Research Grants workshop First aid course
2014

 ESSLLI summer school
From sentence to text and back again - Approaches to text-type-specific sentence interpretation workshop
Advanced Methods in Visual Methods for Linguistics workshop
Linguistic versus Non-Linguistic Knowledge workshop