Hi and welcome to my website.

I am a computational articulatory phonetician working on speech production and its diversity cross-linguistically and across dialects and individuals. I currently work as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter with the Spoken Language Processing Group and the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing at LMU Munich, Germany. I also hold a special lecturer affiliation with Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Speech seems effortless and simple, yet it is one of the most complex activities performed by the human central nervous system, requiring the coordination of more than a hundred muscles with millimeter and millisecond precision. I study the principles that make speech production and perception possible, and the tension between their universal, body-grounded character and their language-specific instantiations shaped by culture, history, cognition, and health.

To understand the laws of speech, I draw on state-of-the-art tracking and imaging techniques - such as electroglottography, aerodynamic investigations, electromagnetic articulography, and real-time MRI – combined with statistical (e.g., functional data analysis, bayesian statistics), dynamical-systems and machine learning/AI modeling. I apply these techniques to a typologically diverse range of languages – from Italian and French to Thai, Japanese, Malay, Icelandic, and beyond – and to diverse populations of speakers ranging from typical adults to children and, recently, clinical populations.

The pursuit of knowledge is a collective enterprise and I am always fond of collaborating with other researchers across phonetics, linguistics, psychology, and the cognitive and clinical sciences.