Academic Background

PhD in Romance Linguistics, Universität Hamburg (Germany). My thesis, for which I was distinguished with the Werner Kraus Award by the German Association of Hispanists (http://hispanistica.de/werner-krauss-preis/preistraegerinnen-2021/), was titled Phonetic production in early and late German-Spanish bilinguals.

Master of Arts in Bilingualism, Bangor University (United Kingdom).

Erasmus Scholarship (9 months), Southampton University (United Kingdom).

Bachelor of Arts (Licenciatura; 300 ECTS) in English Philology (specialisation in Applied Linguistics), Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain).

Bachelor of Arts (Grado - 240 ECTS) in Psychology, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain).

Academic Positions

Currently working as Profesor Ayudante Doctor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (German Department).

02/05/2019-31/03/2022: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter; Hispanic and lusophone linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.

01/10/2017-31/08/2018: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter; Hispanic and lusophone linguistics at Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany.

01/10/2016-30/09/2020: Lehrbeauftragter; Hispanic and lusophone linguistics (Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany).

During my time at Christian Albrecht University of Kiel and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, I taught modules on the following topics: Spanish phonetics, Spanish semantics and lexicology, Spanish morphology, linguistic variation in Spain and Brazil, bilingualism in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, introduction to linguistics, social history of the languages in the Iberian Peninsula, and history of the Portuguese language. 

Certified linguistic skills

Spanish - native
German - C2
English - C2
Catalan - C2
Portuguese - C2
Swedish - B1

Research Interests

Phonetics, sociolinguistics, language change, interdisciplinary research between psychology and linguistics, social history of Germanic and Romance languages, comparative linguistics between Germanic and Romance languages, didactics of foreign languages, and linguistic contacts, among others.