University of Verona, Italy
University of Warsaw, Poland
Ainur graduated from the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU) with a master’s degree in Pedagogical Science, specialising in Foreign Languages: English and German. During her master’s studies, she had an academic semester at the University of Warsaw (UW). She also had a research stay at the Institute of Empirical Linguistics at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. As part of her undergraduate degree, she researched Foreign language teaching using podcasts. Since then, she has been specialising in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics. She has been doing her PhD on Counterfactuals comprehension in the second language (UW). She has participated in the doctoral summer schools on The Psycholinguistics of Multilingualism (UW) and Re-evaluating the Role of the Expert (LERU (League of European Research Universities’), Trinity College Dublin). She is the winner of several grant competitions of UW and received an award from the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL). She has a strong interest in literary theory and narrative empathy. She has worked in the group project on Literary metaphors processing and appreciation in the second language (eye tracking study). Within the ELIT network (ESR 11), Ainur is working on counterfactuals processing and the empathic engagement with fiction in the second language.