ABOUT ME

I am a researcher in linguistics with the focus on digital games.
My main interest lies in the topic of digital agency – of human players, but of virtual characters as well.  

I work as postdoc in the SNF Sinergia project »Confoederatio Ludens – Swiss Game History, Play and Game Design 1968-2000«, where my research contributes to the understanding of Swiss gaming culture depiction in the media. 

As the head of research of the MEEET Lab @ DSI and UB at the University of Zurich, I facilitate projects on digital transformation. By organising events for staff members and fostering student activities, I aim to establish the topic of games at the University of Zurich. I also act as the chair of the DSI Commity Gaming, bringing researchers together who either work on or with games for fruitful collaboration. 

I am associated at the Chair of Prof. Noah Bubenhofer in German Linguistics of the University of Zurich and work as visiting lecturer at the German Department of the University of Zurich and at the ZHdK in the subject area of Game Design.

I received my PhD in the field of textlinguistics, working on the materiality and at the edges of books. In recent years, my research interests have shifted significantly towards game studies, human-nonhuman interaction and digital agency (of human players, game characters including animals), with pragmatic linguistics remaining my main focus, namely with the fine-grained sequential ethnomethodological and conversation analytic informed approaches using video recorded data.