My expertise is in Indo-European linguistics. I have successively specialized in Italic (BA), Greek (MA), Germanic (MA), Anatolian (PhD) and Tocharian (postdoc), and contributed to various dictionary projects.

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Fields of interest

Within the field of Indo-European linguistics, my main areas of interest are the historical developments of the Anatolian, Tocharian, Greek, Italic and Germanic branches, and the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European.

Curriculum vitae

Research
2020-2024: postdoc, the phylogenetic position of Tocharian, Leiden University
2015-2019: PhD (cum laude), Indo-European origins of Anatolian morphology and semantics, Leiden University

Work on dictionary projects
2021-pres.: Lubotsky, Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, Leiden University
2015-2018: Kessels, Sluiter & Rijksbaron,  Grieks/Nederlands Woordenboek, Leiden University
2014-2015: Van der Sijs, elektronische Woordenbank van de Nederlandse dialecten, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam
2014: Beekes,  Pre-Greek: Phonology,  Morphology,  Lexicon, Leiden University
2011-2014: Beekes,  Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Leiden University

Teaching
2006-pres.: teacher and tutor of various Indo-European languages (Greek, Latin, Hittite, Luwian, Lycian, Italian, Dutch), Indo-European phonology and morphology, and historical linguistics

Education
2008-2015: MA (summa cum laude), Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (specialization: Frisian historical linguistics), Leiden University
2008-2014: MA (cum laude), Research Master Classics and Ancient Civilizations (specialization: Greek historical linguistics), VU University Amsterdam
2004-2008: BA, Classics (specialization: Italic historical linguistics), VU University Amsterdam

Publications