I was born in Rennes, France, and spent the first half of my childhood in Brittany and the second in South West England. Raised in a bilingual and bicultural Franco-British environment, I soon developed a keen interest in cultures and languages. I have been living in Cologne in Germany since 2011 and am now fluent in German.

I graduated from the Conference Interpreting M.A. programme at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne with a first and immediately began my translation and interpreting career at the German national railway company, Deutsche Bahn AG. There, I gathered valuable translation and interpreting experience in a broad range of fields (e.g., railway engineering, logistics, HR, IT, works councils, etc.), before becoming a freelance conference interpreter in 2017. My working languages are English, French and German. I also regularly teach sight translation, liaison interpreting and conference interpreting (German – English) at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne on a freelance basis.

I have always had a passion for both learning and teaching foreign languages and now have more than 10 years’ experience as an English and French teacher in adult education. I began my research academic career as a part-time research assistant and lecturer in English Education and Applied Linguistics at Osnabrück University (Germany) in 2016. I have taught English Language Teaching seminars to future English teachers (B.A. and M.Ed.) on topics as diverse as designing and evaluating teaching materials, vocabulary acquisition, teaching speaking skills and phraseology, and on the applications of corpus linguistics in language teaching and learning. From October 2022 to February 2023, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL) at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). I am now a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Cologne (Germany) where I specialise in the application, advancement and teaching of quantitative corpus-linguistics methods.

My PhD project was at the crossroads between applied linguistics and English language teaching research: I conducted several corpus-based multivariate analyses of the language of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks used in secondary schools in France, Germany and Spain. I defended my PhD thesis in July 2022 (summa cum laude). In parallel to my doctoral studies, I also completed an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück, specialising in linguistics and cognitive psychology with a focus on instructed second language acquisition.

In addition to textbook language, my research interests include foreign language pedagogy, corpus-linguistic methods, learner phraseology, media and data literacy, sociolinguistics, and the socio-cognitive processes involved in second language acquisition and interpreting.