I am a PhD candidate at Ghent University in Belgium, working within the MULTIPLES research group.
My research examines the impact of gender-neutral neo-pronouns in French, such as iel and al, on text comprehensibility, reader appreciation, and the mental representations of gender they evoke. My doctoral project is part of an international WEAVE project comparing Flemish, Norwegian, and French.
In parallel of my PhD work, I am collaborating with Celia Richy and Farida Soliman on a project on speech production. I am also collaborating with an international team of european researcher to update the study by Misersky et al. (2014).
Before starting my PhD, I served as a research assistant at the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung of the Technische Universität Berlin, contributing to a project on antisemitism in mainstream media.
I hold a Master’s degree in Sociolinguistics from Queen Mary University of London, where I worked on the self-evaluation of French regional accent. A reworked version of my MA thesis won the Henriette Walter Price of the Association of French Linguistics.
I initially trained as an electro-chemical and process engineer, and worked for a few years as a software engineer before moving to anthropology and finally linguistics.