I am a linguist in the department of Speech communication, Argumentation theory, and Rhetoric, interested in how individual, situational and cultural differences in the way in which we experience language, shape how we engage with our social, natural and technological environment. My publications mostly deal with reported speech (cross-linguistic strategies and structures for talking about language), stance expressions (talking about attitudes and opinions), and grammatical description (predominantly in the Australian Aboriginal language Ngarinyin and Russian).

I obtained my PhD within a project on social cognition and grammar at the Australian National University in Canberra in 2016 and subsequently held postdocs at the Universities of Leuven and Helsinki. Since 2025 I am back as a lecturer at my alma mater, the University of Amsterdam, as a lecturer in speech communication, argumentation, and rhetoric.

If you are interested in writing a Bachelor's or Master's thesis about inner speech, language and (Indigenous) culture, multimodal semiotics, or (social) cognition and language, you are very welcome to contact me. I am usually open to suggestions for other topics as well.