Education
2013
Ph.D. in Theoretical & Computational Linguistics Dr. phil.
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Dissertation: Signals and the Structure of Societies
2009
M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Media Studies
University of Bielefeld, Germany
incl. Computational Linguistics, Formal Methods, Image Processing
2006
B.Sc. in Computer Science ★ Embedded University Award 2007
University of Paderborn, Germany · minor: Psychology
Positions
2020 – present
Senior Researcher — LLM Evaluation & Pragmatics
Project Modeling Meaning-Driven Register Variation (SFB 1412 Register)
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany
2019 – 2021
Principal Investigator — EvoSAL Project PI · €75K
Project EvoSAL: The Evolution of Semantic Ambiguity in the Lab
Funded by NAWA Ulam Programme · Centre for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
2017 – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher — Multi-Agent RL & Cooperation
EU Horizon 2020 Project ODYCCEUS: Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflicts in European Spaces
Management Department, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy H2020
2013 – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher — Computational Sociolinguistics
ERC Advanced Grant Project EVOLAEMP: Language Evolution — The Empirical Turn
Department of General Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany ERC
Grants & Awards
2019
Research Project Grant € 75,000
Project EVOSAL — The Evolution of Semantic Ambiguity in the Lab
NAWA Ulam Programme, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
2019
EU Seal of Excellence EC
European Commission certificate for project proposal COGFRAMES
Cognitive Frames and Cooperation — Formal Approaches Meet Empirical Studies
Submitted under Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018)
2018
Visiting Scholar Grant
Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA ($ 1,725)
2017
Conference Subsidy
Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), for Evolang XII
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń ($ 5,250)
2017
Visiting Scholar Grant
Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine, CA, USA ($ 4,000)
2015
Visiting Scholar Grant
CIMI, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
2011 – 2012
Forum Scientiarum Mention
Udo Keller Foundation Fellowship, Forum Scientiarum, University of Tübingen & Klett Publishers
2010 – 2013
Departmental Travel Grant
Department of General Linguistics, University of Tübingen
Research Stays
Feb./Mar. 2020
Visiting Researcher
Center for Economic Studies, LMU Munich, Germany
Mar. 2018
Visiting Researcher
Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, OH, USA
Jul.–Sep. 2017
Visiting Researcher
Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine, CA, USA
Mar./Apr. 2017
Visiting Researcher
Centre for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
Mar./Apr. 2015
Visiting Researcher
CIMI, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
Skills & Tools
ML / Deep Learning
PyTorch TensorFlow HuggingFace scikit-learn fine-tuning LLM evaluation prompt engineering
NLP
LLM calibration pragmatic modeling text classification semantic analysis spaCy NLTK corpus methods
Programming
Python (expert) R Julia C++ Git JupyterLab
Statistics & Data
Bayesian stats Mixed-effects models pandas NumPy Matplotlib
Experiment Design
LabVanced Prolific MTurk Agent-based modeling NetLogo
Languages
German (native) English (fluent) Italian (intermediate)
Certifications
2025
Google Cloud Machine Learning
EICI · Score: 86.67%
2025
LLM Engineering: AI, LLMs & Agents
Udemy
2025
Deep Learning & Neural Networks in Python
Udemy