About me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Linguistics at Aix-Marseille University (LIS) in Marseille, France. My research focuses on natural language processing, semantic parsing, large language models, and integrating linguistic structure into neural models to improve language understanding and generation.

Currently, I am working on the COMPO project, which investigates inductive biases for compositionality-capable deep learning models of natural language, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alexis Nasr.

Starting in October 2026, I will continue at Aix-Marseille University as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Clinical NLP and AI, in collaboration with Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM), where I will work on applying large language models and natural language processing methods to clinical text.

I completed my PhD at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany (2017–2024) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Petersen. My dissertation developed a frame-semantic parser for English, French, German, and Russian based on Role and Reference Grammar, tree rewriting grammars, and neural networks. This work was part of the TreeGraSP project.

Research Interests

My research lies at the intersection of computational linguistics, structured language processing, and deep learning. I am particularly interested in combining linguistic knowledge with neural language models to improve robustness, interpretability, and performance.

Large Language Models & Neural NLP

• Large language models
• Linguistically informed language modeling
• Low-resource and domain-specific language models
• Text generation and language understanding

Clinical NLP

• Information extraction from clinical narratives
• Clinical language models
• AI for healthcare and medical text processing

Semantic Parsing & Understanding

• Frame semantics and compositional semantics
• Neural semantic parsing
• Syntax-semantics interface

Grammar Formalisms & Parsing

• Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG) and Tree Wrapping Grammar (TWG)
• Role and Reference Grammar (RRG)
• Parsing beyond context-free grammars
• Supertagging and grammar induction

Academic Background

• 2026–present Postdoctoral Researcher (Clinical NLP & AI), Aix-Marseille University & APHM, France
• 2024–2026 Postdoctoral Researcher, Aix-Marseille University, France
• 2017–2024 PhD in Computational Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2010–2013 M.A. in German Studies, University of Düsseldorf, Germany (concurrent with B.A.)
• 2012–2016 B.A. in Information Science and Language Technology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2004–2008 B.A. in German Studies, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia