I completed my undergraduate studies in Paris, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, with a degree in mathematics and specializing in linguistics. I then moved on to do a PhD in linguistics at MIT in Boston. After my PhD, I took a post-doctoral position in Paris, at the Institut Jean Nicod, with a short 6-month stay at the Leibniz-ZAS institute in Berlin.

My work centres around semantics and pragmatics. I am interested in the primitive operations by which speakers can combine the meaning of individual words to form the meaning of sentences. Under this general heading, I focalize on three phenomena: (i) reference to pluralities and collections, (ii) pragmatics and implicatures in particular, or how speakers and hearers capitalize on rationality to say more than what their utterance literally says, (iii) the reference of pronouns and other anaphors in language.

For 2025-2026, I will teach Prelims Semantics & Pragmatics, FHS Semantics & Pragmatics for undergraduates and Foundation Course in Semantics & Pragmatics for graduates, as well as a research seminar.

My research focuses on the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages. The type of questions that I want to answer are the following: what are the operations by which the meanings of individuals words are combined into the meanings of larger objects? How is contextual information incorporated into the semantic composition and how much of it is available to the semantics? What is the division of labour between semantics and pragmatics, if there is one?

My research targets particular aspects of these broad questions. For instance, my work on plural interpretation and cumulative readings, which forms the basis of my dissertation, speaks to the question of what the fundamental components of meaning composition are. My work on the semantic pronouns and anaphoric relations relates to the question of how context enters the semantic composition. In my research on implicatures, I tackle the division of labour between semantics and pragmatics.