I did my BA in Classical civilisations (majors: Greek, Latin) at the University of Basel and my MA in Ancient Greek and Ancient Near East Studies (archaeology and languages, i.e. Hebrew and Arabic) also at the University of Basel yet spending one semester at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin during an ERASMUS exchange during my MA. I then completed my DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall) with a thesis on Classical Linguistics. Last but not least, I did an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse) with a thesis on French Linguistics. In addition, I acquired teaching qualifications for a university context (SEDA PDF) and a non-university context (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). Currently, I am a research fellow at the University of Oxford.

I taught Biblical Hebrew at Basel, Latin and Greek at Oxford and am currently teaching Classical Languages for Oxford and Cambridge. During my DPhil already I totally fell in love with modern Romance languages and therefore spent my summers in Canada (Quebec) and southern France to learn French where it is spoken before doing my MPhil on French syntax. The second Romance language of choice, I just love the sound of it admittedly, is Italian, which I learnt during my DPhil and MPhil because I needed it first for my academic research and then for comparative purposes. During the last few summers, I spent a lot of time teaching English as a Second / Foreign Language, first in Kathmandu (Nepal) during a volunteering placement (2018) and then in Oxford for Oxford Summer Courses, a renown summer school provider (2019), and then online via Tutorful to help buffer the effect of the pandemic on students (2020). In some way, my academic studies and my love for travelling the world has taken me to a significant number of linguistic contexts and settings and has given me the opportunity to immerse in a large number of languages. I can highly recommend this to everyone looking for a challenge – learn a language, take wing and see the world.