I am currently a lecturer in the department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University. My research interests are diverse but congregate around the exploration of language as an embodied and situated system. My primary areas of focus are (i) multimodal grammar and discourse; (ii) metaphor in social issues; and (iii) non-canonical syntactic constructions in English. My core principle as a researcher is to be "theory-open" and I strive to incorporate the insights of multiple approaches in all of the work I do.