About me
I am an applied linguist. Using corpus linguistics methods to solve real world problems is one of my academic missions.
My research aims at finding answers to questions such as:
- Why do students have difficulties in writing their papers?
- Which are the linguistic challenges when writing in L1 versus L2?
- Which are the written genres that are the most challenging for writers of all ages?
- How can teachers help students write better?
- How can technology help academic and professional writers during their writing activities?
- How is writing in education evolving in the digital age?
- How should writing related education adapt to the new technological developments?
To answer such questions, I conduct research projects in which we collect large collections of authentic language samples. We do this, in most cases, for the first time, since such data capture the Romanian context.
I am a Senior Researcher (CS II / Associate Professor level) at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures of the West University of Timisoara, Romania.
As the Founder and President of the Research Centre CODHUS, my role is to coordinate corpus related interdisciplinary projects with educational impact.
See, for example, ROGER, DACRE and LEMI.
CODHUS is the first Digital Humanities centre in Romania that uses Corpus Linguistics for Applied Research. Prior to working at WUT, I worked as a Junior and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of Switzerland (ZHAW), for more than eight years. My PhD was conducted at Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.
The places where I worked are listed in this Academic Biography Infographic:
I am an applied linguist.
Using corpus linguistics methods to solve real world problems is one of my academic missions.
My research aims at finding answers to questions such as:
- Why do students have difficulties in writing their papers?
- Which are the linguistic challenges when writing in L1 versus L2?
- Which are the written genres that are the most challenging for writers of all ages?
- How can teachers help students write better?
- How can technology help academic and professional writers during their writing activities?
- How is writing in education evolving in the digital age?
- How should writing related education adapt to the new technological developments?
To answer such questions, I conduct research projects in which we collect large collections of authentic language samples. We do this, in most cases, for the first time, since such data capture the Romanian context.
I am a Senior Researcher (CS II / Associate Professor level) at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures of the West University of Timisoara, Romania.
As the Founder and President of the Research Centre CODHUS, my role is to coordinate corpus related interdisciplinary projects with educational impact.
See, for example, ROGER, DACRE and LEMI.
CODHUS is the first Digital Humanities centre in Romania that uses Corpus Linguistics for Applied Research.
Prior to working at WUT, I worked as a Junior and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of Switzerland (ZHAW), for more than eight years. My PhD was conducted at Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.
The places where I worked are listed in this Academic Biography Infographic:
More about my academic career in my long CV in English or my short CV in Romanian.
My special interest is in creating tools and apps by which our research data and results can be used for research, teaching and general use in open access user-friendly format. That is why almost all our projects result in educational tools such as: ROGER platform, EXPRES platform or ComparaQ.
Since 2020, I also supervise PhD students.
Research interests
Applied Corpus Linguistics, Academic Writing, Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies, Literacy Policy and Strategy Making.
My academic profiles:
Google Scholar, BRAINMAP (ID: U-1700-041N-9340), ORCID, ResearchGate
Contact information here.