Dr. Annika Tjuka Language Scientist

CV

Full CV

Education

PhD in Linguistics

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (2019 - 2024)

Thesis: Language variation in word meanings: Cross-linguistic patterns and causes of colexifications

MA in Linguistics

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2016 - 2019)

Thesis: Body-part metaphors as a window to cognition: A cross-linguistic study of object and landscape terms

BA in German Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2012 - 2016)

Thesis: Emotionalisation through texts

Academic Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2023 - Present)

Academic Visitor

Department of Experimental Psychology at University of Oxford (2026)

Doctoral Researcher

Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2019 - 2023)

Research Associate

Department of German Studies and Linguistics at Humboldt University Berlin (2019)

Teaching Experience

Lecturer

Institute of British Studies at Leipzig University, Germany (2026)

Lecturer

Chair for Multilingual Computational Linguistics at University of Passau, Germany (2023 - 2024)

Lecturer

Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. (2022 - 2023)

Lecturer

Department of English Studies at University of Jena, Germany (2019 - 2022)