Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 2022: Ph.D in Linguistics, KU Leuven
• 2018: Master of Arts in Speech and Language Processing, University of Konstanz
• 2015: Bachelor of Arts in German Linguistics and Literary Studies (major) and History (minor), University of Freiburg

Work experience

• 10/2024 - today: Scientific Librarian, University of Freiburg
  • Duties include: assistance to the directorate, public relations, collection development

• 10/2023 - 09/2024: Scientific Librarian in training, University of Konstanz

• 03/2023 - 08/2023: Librarian with a focus on Open Access, imec vzw
  • Duties included: curating data for the institutional Open Access repository, document delivery service for researchers
• 10/2018 - 12/2022: Doctoral Student, KU Leuven
  • PhD dissertation (unpublished manuscript): Engel, Alexandra. 2022. The register-specificity of probabilistic grammars in English and Dutch - Combining corpus analysis and experimentation. Leuven: KU Leuven PhD dissertation. https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/20.500.12942/707293
  • Supervisor: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
  • Co-supervisors: Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Freek Van de Velde

Other activities

• Reviewer for Language Variation and Change, Cognitive Linguistics and Corpora
• Science communication with Science Figured Out:

https://www.sciencefiguredout.be/can-we-be-multilingual-our-own-mother-tongue

• 3rd place in the category “Best visualization” at the Datathon 2020 (KU Leuven) with the team Linguistatistics