About me

I’m a computational cognitive scientist who researches the interplay between language, inference, social cognition, and social interaction. I work as assistant professor at the Cognitive Science and AI Department and the Donders Centre for Cognition at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. I’m a member of the Computational Cognitive Science research group led by prof. Iris van Rooij. Find my CV here.

Language use relies on (i) flexible inferencing skills (e.g. to combine linguistic knowledge and world knowledge to infer the meaning of a novel word like “mask-shaming”); (ii) socio-cognitive skills such as theory of mind (e.g. to decide whether to talk about “the house” or “a house” with a specific conversation partner), and (iii) interactional skills (e.g. to ask for clarification). I use computational modelling to tackle challenging questions about these capacities and their interplay.

Watch a 15-min talk about my research programme below: