Research & Teaching
09/2023 – onwards
Post-doctoral researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Department of Psychology IV, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Würzburg, Germany
Funding: Scientia Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Bavarian Equal Opportunity Grants (BGF), 09/2023 – 09/2024
Mentor: Prof. Tobias Richter
04/2015 – 04/2017
Post-doctoral researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Institute of German Language and Literature I, University of Cologne, Germany
Project Title: Special Indefinites in Discourse
Funding Institution: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Principle Investigator: Prof. Klaus von Heusinger
10/2011 – 03/2015
Lecturer (Dozentin), Department of English Linguistics, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Würzburg, Germany
Courses Taught
– Neurocognition of Language (Spring 2012, Spring 2013)
– Psycholinguistics (Fall 2013, Spring 2014 – 2 Groups, Fall 2014)
– Sociolinguistics (Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013)
– Introduction to English Morphology and Word-Formation (Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, – Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014 – 2 Groups)
09/2009 – 09/2011
Research fellow (Akademische Mitarbeiterin), Zukunftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study for young scholars), University of Konstanz, Germany
Project Title: Language processing in Turkish children with German as a second language: Neurophysiological and linguistic investigations
Funding Institution: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Principle Investigator: Dr. Tanja Rinker
Member of Neurolinguistics: Electroencephalography (EEG) laboratory
Head of the Laboratory: Prof. Carsten Eulitz
Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany
Courses Taught
– Block Seminar, Multilingualism in Context, with Dr. Tanja Rinker (Spring 2011)
– Tutorial to Introductory Seminar, Morphology, with Prof. Frans Plank (Fall 2010)
2008 – 2016
Research collaborator, Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), the Netherlands
Project Title: Test for Assessing Reference of Time (TART)
Principle Investigator: Prof. Roelien Bastiaanse
07/2004 – 07/2007
Sworn translator (English-Turkish), registered at 26th and 32nd Notaries, Ankara, Turkey
Peer-Reviewing and Scientific Committees
workshop organization committee
International Workshop: Current Topics in Bilingualism with a Focus on Heritage Speakers of Turkish and Romance languages
abstract review
Annual Conferences of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS)
International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC)
Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCaLL)
article review
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Aphasiology
International Journal of Bilingualism
referee
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Research Skills
- using SPSS and R statistical programs
- recording and analyzing Event-Related Potentials (ERP) data using Brain Products (Brain Vision Recorder and Brain Vision Analyzer)
- collecting and analyzing data from Reaction Time (RT) and Magnitude Estimation (ME) experiments
- recording and analyzing Spontaneous Speech
- doing research using Linguistic Corpora
- conducting behavioral language comprehension and production experiments (i.e., sentence elicitation and picture selection tasks) on children and agrammatic speakers