Academic positions

October 2026: Full Professor (W3) for Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition, Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures, Goethe University Frankfurt.

April 2019-2026: Professor (W2) for Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition, Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures, Goethe University Frankfurt.

January 2016 - March 2019: Assistant Professor (W1) (Linguistics of Italian and another Romance language) at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of Hamburg.


Apr. 2014 – 2015: Research Assistant (Postdoc) – Emerging Group 'Dynamic Structuring in Language and Communication', University of Cologne (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger).


Sept. – Dec. 2013: Adjunct teacher (Introduction to Linguistics), Institute of General Linguistics, University of Verona.


Aug. 2012 – Dec. 2013: Postdoc in the field of second language acquisition 'Language acquisition of interrogative sentences at the syntax/prosody interface'. University of Verona. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Camilla Bettoni).


April 2013: Visiting Professor at the University of Richmond (Virginia): General Linguistics (with a focus on language acquisition and Italian dialectology).