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Education

2022 – present

DPhil in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at University of Oxford
Dissertation title (preliminary): A Typology of Tone in the Kainantu Languages of Papua New Guinea.

2016 – 2019

Research MA in Linguistics at Leiden University (cum laude)
Thesis: ‘Topics in the grammar of Binumarien: Tone and switch reference in a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea’ (8.3/10).
Courses taken (selection): Sounds of Chinese (9.0/10), Modern Dutch grammar (8.0/10), Samples of linguistic structure (8.1/10).

2017 – 2018

Leiden Leadership Programme at Leiden University
Honours programme for master’s students focusing on leadership and collaboration.

2013 – 2016

BA in Linguistics (Taalwetenschap) at Leiden University (cum laude)
Thesis (in Dutch): ‘The Tarifiyt Berber particle qa in Dutch’ (8.0/10)
Specialisation: Descriptive linguistics. Courses taken (selection): World languages (9.9/10), Description of a non-western language: Ambon Malay (9.0/10), Linguistic fieldwork (8.6/10), Speech sounds of the world (8.6/10), Historical linguistics (9.2/10), Descriptive linguistics (8.6/10).

2014 – 2015

First year (propedeuse) BA Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University
Specialisation: Arabic. Courses taken (selection): Arabic grammar, Media Arabic, Literature of the Middle East, Islamic art and material culture.

2023

Studentship from AHRC OOC DTP  (Arts and Humanities Research Council Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership).

2019

Nominated for the LUF International Study Fund Award (for the report of my fieldwork in Papua New Guinea).

2018

LUF International Study Fund: €1,000; Sustainable Humanities Fund: €1,250; Trustee Funds (Curatorenfonds): €400; Uhlenbeck Fund: €1,250.

The 2018-2019 nomination and grants were awarded for my MA research. The 2022-2023 grants were awarded for my DPhil research and fieldwork.

Academic experience

2022 – present

Member of the LingO organising committee, University of Oxford
Organising LingO, the Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics.

2018

Research Internship at Summer Institute of Linguistics, Papua New Guinea
Literacy work with children in their native language; collect and analyse linguistic data on the Binumarien language in Papua New Guinea for five months.

2017

Research internship at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Describe features of Dutch spoken in Suriname for an update of the ANS, a grammar of standardised Dutch.

Other positions

2020 – 2022

Young professional programme at Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities

Second year at Medical Delta, Delft University of Technology:

• Project lead for the Medical Delta Talent Acceleration call,
• Set up a master’s student thesis lab with the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Sustainability,
• Organise conferences and meetings for Medical Delta network,
• Write a report on how to improve interdisciplinary collaboration between Medical Delta researchers.

First year at the Information Management Directorate, Leiden University:

• Project lead for an awareness campaign among university employees regarding digital security and privacy, informing them about careful data storage and sharing,
• Set up an e-learning programme and organise trainings on digital security for staff, including Leiden University’s executive board,
• Secretary of the Information Security Platform, for faculty security managers.

2019 – 2020

Information advisor at DOCFactory, Rijswijk
Manage information files and making them accessible to various clients, including the municipality of Amsterdam.

2017 – 2018

Editor at Publistat, Amsterdam
Select, translate, and process news items for customer organisations, including the European Parliament.

2016 – 2018

Language buddy volunteer (taalmaatje) at Gilde Samenspraak Leiden Support a refugee immigrant with the acquisition of Dutch.

Other skills and interests

IT

Trainings in Praat, ELAN and FLEx as part of my BA and MA programme.

Sports

Rowing, hiking.

Languages

Fluent in Dutch, English, French and Tok Pisin. Tok Pisin is a national language of Papua New Guinea and serves as the intermediate language with research participants.